Think of the time when the first Homo sapien was born. What all we knew about
the world or the universe or the galaxy at that time? Not even what a three or four
years old child of today knows. Probably, this world was restricted to basic needs
and surroundings. During those days, managing bioresource conservation and
livelihood development was very easy. Slowly but steadily, we started to know.
Difference between doubt and belief explained that doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of
belief which is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to
change to a belief in anything else. However, methodological issues of research
advancements in social science to manage bioresources conservation and livelihood
development there are four methods of fixing belief or say knowing something. The
first is the method of tenacity. It means holding or tending to hold persistently to
something, such as a point of view. We believe what we have always believed to be
truth. The second method takes care of fixing the belief in the community, which
may be called the method of authority. This method has, from the earliest times,
been one of the chief means of upholding correct theological and political doctrines,
and of preserving their universal character. However, no institution can regulate
opinions of every individual. There are logical thinkers and they fix their belief
through a superior and intellectual method of knowing, i.e., the method of intuition.
This method involves deductive reasoning, i.e., proceeding from a known or
assumed cause to a necessarily related effect. It is derived without reference to
particular facts or experience and made before or without examination not supported by factual study. To satisfy our doubts, therefore, it is necessary that a
method should be found to manage bioresource conservation and livelihood
development by which our beliefs may be determined by nothing human, but by
some external permanency by something upon which our thinking has no effect. It
must be something which affects, or might affect, every man and though these
affections are necessarily as various as are individual conditions, yet the method
must be such that the ultimate conclusion of every man shall be the same. Such is
the method of science, the fourth method of fixing belief to manage bioresource
conservation and livelihood development through methodological issues of
research advancements in social science.
2 Scientific Research for Bioresource Conservation
and Livelihood Development
It is amazing that many educated persons do not know what social science is
although the word social science is so familiar; its meaning is not widespread.
Science is the systematic observation of natural events and conditions in order to
discover facts about them and to formulate laws and principles based on these facts,
theories to make unequivocal predictions that can be tested by anybody. The results
can be reproduced by others the systematic observation of natural events and
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the world or the universe or the galaxy at that time? Not even what a three or four
years old child of today knows. Probably, this world was restricted to basic needs
and surroundings. During those days, managing bioresource conservation and
livelihood development was very easy. Slowly but steadily, we started to know.
Difference between doubt and belief explained that doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of
belief which is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to
change to a belief in anything else. However, methodological issues of research
advancements in social science to manage bioresources conservation and livelihood
development there are four methods of fixing belief or say knowing something. The
first is the method of tenacity. It means holding or tending to hold persistently to
something, such as a point of view. We believe what we have always believed to be
truth. The second method takes care of fixing the belief in the community, which
may be called the method of authority. This method has, from the earliest times,
been one of the chief means of upholding correct theological and political doctrines,
and of preserving their universal character. However, no institution can regulate
opinions of every individual. There are logical thinkers and they fix their belief
through a superior and intellectual method of knowing, i.e., the method of intuition.
This method involves deductive reasoning, i.e., proceeding from a known or
assumed cause to a necessarily related effect. It is derived without reference to
particular facts or experience and made before or without examination not supported by factual study. To satisfy our doubts, therefore, it is necessary that a
method should be found to manage bioresource conservation and livelihood
development by which our beliefs may be determined by nothing human, but by
some external permanency by something upon which our thinking has no effect. It
must be something which affects, or might affect, every man and though these
affections are necessarily as various as are individual conditions, yet the method
must be such that the ultimate conclusion of every man shall be the same. Such is
the method of science, the fourth method of fixing belief to manage bioresource
conservation and livelihood development through methodological issues of
research advancements in social science.
2 Scientific Research for Bioresource Conservation
and Livelihood Development
It is amazing that many educated persons do not know what social science is
although the word social science is so familiar; its meaning is not widespread.
Science is the systematic observation of natural events and conditions in order to
discover facts about them and to formulate laws and principles based on these facts,
theories to make unequivocal predictions that can be tested by anybody. The results
can be reproduced by others the systematic observation of natural events and
Methodological Issues in Social Science Research …
67