LIMITS AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL BARRIERS TO HUMAN KNOWLEDGE OF THE NATURAL WORLD.
The goal of this article is to give an overview of the current limitations and epistemological barriers in Science and Scientific Philosophy from a very general point of view. We first list and define the types of knowledge nous, doxa and episteme, and the Sobject-Observer and Object(s) of study, to...
| Published in: | Cosmos & History Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 152 - 173 |
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Ashton & Rafferty
2023
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