This is no longer just a general and thus abstract connection, there are scientific and methodological instruments for it. A vital character is assumed here by the determination for the presumption of causality contained in modernization risks, a presumption it is difficult if not impossible to prove for theoretical reasons (for a summary, see Stegmuller 1970). We are interested here in the controllability of the recognition process by means of validity criteria of the proof of causality. The higher these criteria are set, the smaller is the circle of recognized risks, and the larger becomes the accumulation of unrecognized risks. Of course, it is also true that walls of recognition in front of the risks only grow higher. The insistence on elevated validity criteria, then, is a highly effective and thoroughly legitimized construction meant to dam and channel the flood of risks, but with a built-in screen that increases the growth of risks in inverse proportion to the successful ‘derecognition’ of them.