Importance of Scientific Thought

In the unremitting and enormous efforts that Western science has made to organize a method of operation that is most useful for analyzing the different phenomena of existence (from the natural to the social) we find great advances that have contributed to obtaining lasting and infinities. Among them we must mention the development of a type of scientific thinking that has served to launch any process of study.

The beginnings of the establishment of a scientific type of thought

Although what we know as Western science has been built with the input of thousands of years and many centuries of great and small advances, the reality is that it was only after the achievements of the Illustration In the 18th century and the Scientific Revolution that began in the 17th century, the parameters of a thought that allowed ordering scientific work began to be established.

This meant that for the first time the foundations of what would later become a form of systematize the scientific process that should have a theory or ideology from which to start to carry out any kind of

investigation. Scientific thought served at the dawn of Western science as a way of ordering the process through the use of generalized patterns, structures, and forms.

Characteristics of thought that is useful for science

There are two or three elements that can be understood as the basis of scientific thought. On the one hand, we have the essence of this type of thought, which is the one that indicates that there is no knowledge that can be achieved or developed without the use of reason. Thus, scientific thought moves through rational structures in which nothing has to do with the religion or superstition, as well as speculation.

At the same time, scientific thinking must be objective and set aside personal stances or religious beliefs. A third feature of this thought is its need to be organized in formulas that are understandable and applicable to all. in each of the cases that is required, whether one is trying to study a natural process or a chemical process, to put examples.

What is opposed to scientific thought? Ideas and meaning

In its birth in a more structured way, scientific thought is established essentially against religious intervention as a method to know knowledge. Thus, he opposes any dogma or axiom that is based on the idea that only those who believe can know. At the same time, it detaches itself from the religious structures that only a privileged few can know to be "enlightened" and becomes massive or general to be able to be used by anyone in any discipline.

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