Please explain the following:

250 words:

What are key arguments offered by proponents of the scientific method and the critiques of these arguments? Consider, also, the claims of limits on human potential for acquisition of scientific knowledge. Can scientific approaches to knowledge be reconciled with others, such as a prior knowledge, subjectivism, and faith, or are they mutually exclusive?

600 words:

Explain how knowledge theory is manifested in a particular professional setting that you have knowledge of (educational, manufacturing, service, or business etc.) Incorporate organizations with which you have been or are currently affiliated. Use such observations as a basis for deriving general principles concerning which approaches are effective and which are not.