Chance and creativity are method issues

Abstract

Chance is one of the best allied of researching. Most part of relevant knowledge to which we are able to get through the research has a high component of chance, of unpredictability. However, chance is maintained out of any scientific methodology. This article defends that this exclusion, beyond being a mere practical matter, responds to an epistemology that conceives of the reality occurring independent from our capacity for knowledge and thinks creativity as a quality of projecting brilliant ideas above things, instead of emphasizing its empathetic basis. Anthropology, thanks to the nature of its method, makes possible scenarios of comprehension and creativity action in which we should persist and that we should defend as fundamental tools of knowledge and political struggle.