Constructivism (philosophy of science)

<p>Constructivism is a view in the <a href="/facts/Philosophy_of_science/aonsfhTY">philosophy of science</a> that maintains that <a href="/facts/Scientific_knowledge/IJoaD7rs">scientific knowledge</a> is constructed by the <a href="/facts/Scientific_community/0YIPcVzE">scientific community</a>, which seeks to measure and construct <a href="/facts/Conceptual_model/hgysE2kP">models</a> of the natural world. According to constructivists, <a href="/facts/Natural_science/8hg81Q2p">natural science</a> consists of mental constructs that aim to explain sensory experiences and measurements, and that there is no single valid <a href="/facts/Methodology/dk5X9Hxx">methodology</a> in science but rather a diversity of useful methods. They also hold that the world is independent of human minds, but knowledge of the world is always a human and <a href="/facts/Social_construction/NeGDLvKL">social construction</a>. Constructivism opposes the philosophy of <a href="/facts/Objectivity_(philosophy)/nbUpe5Bp">objectivism</a>, embracing the belief that human beings can come to know the truth about the natural world not mediated by scientific approximations with different degrees of <a href="/facts/Validity_(statistics)/9LNgtTUG">validity</a> and <a href="/facts/Accuracy/JQ47xXDq">accuracy</a>. 
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Constructivism (philosophy of science)