O MÉTODO CIENTÍFICO NA PRODUÇÃO DA PESQUISA EM CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS
Abstract
This article aims to reflect the process of the scientific method and its contribution to research production. Science has as its fundamental objective to reach the veracity of facts. In this sense, science is indistinguishable from other forms of knowledge. What makes scientific knowledge different from others, however, is that it has as its fundamental characteristic the development of research. For a knowledge to be considered scientific, it is necessary to identify the mental and technical operations that make its verification possible. In other words, the method that made it possible to arrive at this knowledge must be determined. So we can ask: what is the purpose of science? Its only end is knowledge, objective truth. It was believed that the experimental method is the most efficient and safe method to reach knowledge, however, for each science you can have specific methods
Keywords: Scientific Method. Scientific Research.