Epistemological bases of the environment and risks in the field of tourist activities: words, terms and concepts

Scientific knowledge, environmental knowledge, risk knowledge, etc., based not on the intrinsic rationality of the fundamental assumptions of unprovable science, but simply on a convention, is making its way today (as Professor Calsamiglia has shown in his work). Convention that changes over time, precisely for that reason it can progress. If we are able to overcome rigid methodological monism and stop considering unworthy of attention everything that does not agree with the established convention, then, and only then, we will be able to truly relativize our knowledge, which is the product of conventions and developments of these conventions, and we will not be able to claim that our knowledge is the truth, and that our convention is the true one, the one that corresponds to human reason, but we will simply maintain that it is a way of interpreting reality, a scheme of interpretation of the reality that we claim to know. I underline a scheme of interpretation, neither the only possible one nor the ultimately true one. Perhaps the closest or most true at a given time, but one that is destined to be surpassed. This is an idea that is attempted to be developed here.

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Observatorio Medioambiental
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2024-12-20
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https://doi.org/10.5209/obmd.99718
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Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
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Epistemological bases of the environment and risks in the field of tourist activities: words, terms and concepts

María Sotelo Pérez
Observatorio Medioambiental
Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
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Epistemological bases of the environment and risks in the field of tourist activities: words, terms and concepts

María Sotelo Pérez
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Scientific knowledge, environmental knowledge, risk knowledge, etc., based not on the intrinsic rationality of the fundamental assumptions of unprovable science, but simply on a convention, is making its way today (as Professor Calsamiglia has shown in his work). Convention that changes over time, precisely for that reason it can progress. If we are able to overcome rigid methodological monism and stop considering unworthy of attention everything that does not agree with the established convention, then, and only then, we will be able to truly relativize our knowledge, which is the product of conventions and developments of these conventions, and we will not be able to claim that our knowledge is the truth, and that our convention is the true one, the one that corresponds to human reason, but we will simply maintain that it is a way of interpreting reality, a scheme of interpretation of the reality that we claim to know. I underline a scheme of interpretation, neither the only possible one nor the ultimately true one. Perhaps the closest or most true at a given time, but one that is destined to be surpassed. This is an idea that is attempted to be developed here.

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