It seems widely acknowledged that scientific knowledge is special because it is derived from the facts of experience with application of rigorous scientific methods such as observation, experiment, measurement, statistics, and theorization, to natural phenomenon. Other academic fields like literature and jurisprudence, for example, appear to be merely based on vague and inaccurate methods such as expressing personal experience or opinion, or applying rules written in words arbitrarily interpretable.
Another distinctive feature of scientific knowledge is that it has always been progressing rapidly, in terms of their rigorousness in explaining the nature, accuracy of predictability, and application of new technology to our daily life, since …show more content…
A notable feature of the precautionary principle is that though it does not fulfill itself the conditions to be scientific, it publicly addresses the problem of uncertainty, especially that of ignorance, which extends beyond science and cognition. Science has nothing to do with ignorance for ignorance extends its field to the outside of scientific knowledge. To this, Beck implies an ironic situation we human beings are put:
“The fatal irony, into which scientific-technical society plunges us is, as a consequence of its perfection, much more radical: we do not know what it is we don’t know—but from this dangers arise, which threaten mankind!”
If that is the case, then we can conclude that when certain technology is implemented to “protect” the environment, it may cause unknown effects as ignorance to the environment, no matter it is used well or not, and that the more progress science makes, the more unknown effects it might cause and the degree of impact of these unknown effects can result in the extinction of all living things including human
Another distinctive feature of scientific knowledge is that it has always been progressing rapidly, in terms of their rigorousness in explaining the nature, accuracy of predictability, and application of new technology to our daily life, since …show more content…
A notable feature of the precautionary principle is that though it does not fulfill itself the conditions to be scientific, it publicly addresses the problem of uncertainty, especially that of ignorance, which extends beyond science and cognition. Science has nothing to do with ignorance for ignorance extends its field to the outside of scientific knowledge. To this, Beck implies an ironic situation we human beings are put:
“The fatal irony, into which scientific-technical society plunges us is, as a consequence of its perfection, much more radical: we do not know what it is we don’t know—but from this dangers arise, which threaten mankind!”
If that is the case, then we can conclude that when certain technology is implemented to “protect” the environment, it may cause unknown effects as ignorance to the environment, no matter it is used well or not, and that the more progress science makes, the more unknown effects it might cause and the degree of impact of these unknown effects can result in the extinction of all living things including human