CONSERVATIVE AND PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS IN SCIENCE
CONSERVATIVE AND PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS IN SCIENCE
Author(s): Mieczysław LubańskiSubject(s): Philosophy of Science, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
Keywords: science; history of science; development;
Summary/Abstract: Abstract. The development of science, proceeding at a higher and higher speed, leads to the creation of new concepts, theories, and ideas. They constitute a progressive component of science. However, scientific development does not mean that everything that was accepted earlier has to be given up. New elements may be acquired and exist together with the old ones. Such old elements constitute a conservative component of science. That is why modern science shows itself as a wholeness constituted by the above-mentioned components.
Journal: Studia Philosophiae Christianae
- Issue Year: 56/2020
- Issue No: S2
- Page Range: 9-22
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English