Humane Science Must Be Adapted To The

The World We Inhabit Is Abundant Beyond Our Wildest Imagination. There Are Trees, Dreams, Sunrises; There Are Thunderstorms, Shadows, Rivers; There Are Wars, Flea Bites, Love Affairs; There Are The Lives Of People, Gods, Entire Galaxies. The Simplest Human Action Varies From One Person And Occasion To The Next-how Else Would We Recognize Our Friends Only From Their Gait, Posture, Voice, And Divine Their Changing Moods? Only A Tiny Fraction Of This Abundance Affects Our Minds. This Is A Blessing, Not A Drawback.

Those Who Violate The Rules Of A Language Do Not Enter New Territory; They Leave The Domain Of Meaningful Discourse. Even Facts In These Circumstances Dissolve, Because They Are Shaped By The Language And Subjected To Its Limitations.

My Intention Is Not To Replace One Set Of General Rules By Another Such Set: My Intention Is, Rather, To Convince The Reader That All Methodologies, Even The Most Obvious Ones, Have Their Limits.

The Separation Of Science And Non-science Is Not Only Artificial But Also Detrimental To The Advancement Of Knowledge. If We Want To Understand Nature, If We Want To Master Our Physical Surroundings, Then We Must Use All Ideas, All Methods, And Not Just A Small Selection Of Them.

So Far Unitarian Realism Claiming To Possess Positive Knowledge About Ultimate Reality Has Succeeded Only By Excluding Large Areas Of Phenomena Or By Declaring, Without Proof, That They Could Be Reduced To Basic Theory, Which, In This Connection, Means Elementary Particle Physics.