science

Science sees a lot of problems when learning/studying things and transforming it to knowledge or insight … uh … according to a philosopher.

I put the text here on a tile, and that’s exactly what this scientist did on social media.
We call that in Holland “tegeltjes wijsheid” – in English you could say: tilies wisdom.
[The name of this philosopher isn’t important, I guess this is mainstream epistemology.]

Science has taught us these things.

Thus there are a lot of problems with what we think is our knowledge of, our insight in matters.
Well, I like to believe that when talking about climatology – or chatting with the climatologist community.

I think there is a problem with the wisdom expressed on this tile.
Science taught us … a lot of things.
But science taught us also that science is a social institution often powerfully shaped by human biases and broader cultural, political, and economic forces.
Well, speaking of climatology …

And what to think of “especially social science”: the last statement, the empirical lens on science itself, is a textbook example of social science.

We have an expression for this kind of wisdom, isn’t it? A contradictio in adjecto!
Or, to put it mildly: is the value of the statement on science not conditioned by the statements on the other sciences, coming from the same source?