Bariery nauki. Szkic o epistemologicznych granicach ludzkiego poznania
Barriers of science. A sketch of the epistemological limits of human knowledge

Summary/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 14 STUDIA I ANALIZY / SP Vol. 59 DANIEL MIDER understood as the finite scope of the mysteries of science itself – the fact of a limited number of possible discoveries.

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