Scientific method and legal principles of the constitutional government

Abstract

Every method has to take into account not only the skills, but also the limitations of the human spirit. The so-called "scientific method" seems to derive its enormous effectiveness in explaining the reality precisely of these elementary considerations.
In fact, every form of knowledge, including vulgar knowledge, has such a structure: it is to raise problems and rehearse an explanation for them. The very thing about science is that it radicalizes the natural faculties of understanding, making it possible to overcome the simple reciprocal game of trial and error.
Therefore, the legitimacy and value of the methods used by science depend, above all, on their correspondence with the intellectual capacities of men. The most important difference between modern science and many of the worldviews that still claim to account today! of man and society, lies precisely that it is more modest than the latter.
The scientific method establishes not only positive rules, which indicate how the scientist should act to achieve his objectives, but also includes certain prohibitions that mark those questions that are excluded from controllable rational discourse.
The model of thought that was developed from the natural sciences has the advantage of relying on a theory of realistic knowledge, which affirms man's ability to approach the truth, but which denies the pretence of obtaining an absolutely certain knowledge. (1) this premise has become a common place of contemporary scientific thought.