Humans Can Produce Knowledge Through Passive Observation Or Active Experiment

Are there any other ways in which humans can produce knowledge other than through passive observation or active experiment?

Knowledge claim: Active experiment is a very effective way of acquiring knowledge in the human sciences. Counter claim: At the same time, there are some inaccuracies in the statement above. Intuition and emotions are not belong to an active experiment as well as passive experimentation. In this essay will be discussed some agreements with the statement as well as dissension.

Area of knowledge – the real life situation belonged to human science and natural science. The ways of knowing such as sense perception, reason and emotions would be discussed.

Knowledge question: Are there any other forms of knowledge production

Active experiment is when a person gets knowledge by experience he gained. In natural sciences active learning in represented by conducting trials and trials of experiment. After some trials if we can see a particular pattern this would be your knowledge. Active experiment consist of passive observations. For example, if on a chemistry lessons we will mix a water with a normal dining salt, we observe that the salt is disappearing. After some trials, we can make a conclusion that a salt is dissolving in a water – these trials would call a passive observation. Passive observation is knowledge, which we gain through our senses. In the situation with salt we use our sense perception, reason and emotions to produce this understanding.

Scientist think that reason is the most proper way of knowing. However, we have to avoid the conclusion that scientists use ONLY reason. Emotions and imagination are very useful in science and scientists said that both of them are very important in the construction of knowledge. Emotions are important in a making the hypothesis – to predict the results of an experiment and imagination is very important for constructing

Phenomena is what leads a researcher to question what is going on, and begin to formulate scientific questions and hypotheses. A very important aspect of a science is experimentation. According to Carl Popper’s theory, experimentation is useful to refute a hypothesis. This philosopher thinks that if a theory is falsifiable, it is scientific, and if not, then it is unscientific. For example, Newton 's Theory of Gravity was accepted as truth for centuries, because objects do not randomly float away from the earth. It appeared to fit the figures obtained by experimentation and research, but was always subject to testing. For many sciences, the idea of falsifiability is a useful tool for generating theories that are testable and realistic. If a falsifiable theory is tested and the results are significant, then it can become accepted as a scientific truth. The advantage of Popper 's idea is that such truths can be falsified when more knowledge and resources are available. Even long accepted theories such as Gravity, Relativity and Evolution are increasingly challenged and adapted. The major disadvantage of falsifiability is that it is very strict in its definitions and does not take into account that many sciences are observational and