Barriers of science.
A sketch of the epistemological limits
of human knowledge
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Uniwersytet Warszawski
Publication date: 2021-04-26
Studia Politologiczne 2021;59
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ABSTRACT
The article is devoted to the analysis of factors that prevent or limit the
development of broadly understood science. The following types of limitations have been
distinguished: psychosocial, biological, political, resource barriers and the final nature of
science. Biological barriers lie in human sensory endowment. Psychosocial barriers are
determined by the conditions of the functioning of human societies. Resource barriers
are constraints on economic and energy reserves. The problem of the scope of science is understood as the finite scope of the mysteries of science itself – the fact of a limited number
of possible discoveries.
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