What is Science? Dooyeweerd believes that the mission of science does include a search for what is really there. But in a way that is rather different.

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What is Science? Dooyeweerd believes that the mission of science does include a search for what is really there. But in a way that is rather different from that which most of us would expect. 1- The 'really there' that science has a mission to uncover is not entities (things), types of entity and their behavior, but laws of aspects. Sciences, especially the human sciences like psychology and sociology, tend to focus on entities and to assume that it is the nature of the entity (e.g. the human brain, the social group) that determines behavior, and hence to understand requires that we understand the entity. Dooyeweerd says that while entities are to be understood, we can only do so if we first understand laws. It is the laws, which are different for each aspect, which are more fundamentally 'really there'. So science should seek to understand laws, rather than entities. 2 - Science is not one, and ways of knowing are not one. Each aspect has laws that are irreducible to others, each aspect has a different way of knowing (epistemology), each aspect is the center for a special science, and the scientists in each aspect develop different methods and techniques.

The reason, therefore, that some intuitive minds are not mathematical is that they cannot at all turn their attention to the principles of mathematics. But the reason that mathematicians are not intuitive is that they do not see what is before them, and that, accustomed to the exact and plain principles of mathematics, and not reasoning till they have well inspected and arranged their principles, they are lost in matters of intuition where the principles do not allow of such arrangement. These principles are so fine and so numerous that a very delicate and very clear sense is needed to perceive them, and to judge rightly and justly when they are perceived, without for the most part being able to demonstrate them in order as in mathematics; because the principles are not known to us in the same way, and because it would be an endless matter to undertake it. We must see the matter at once, at one glance, and not by a process of reasoning, at least to a certain degree. And thus it is rare that mathematicians are intuitive, and that men of intuition are mathematicians, because mathematicians wish to treat matters of intuition mathematically, and make themselves ridiculous, wishing to begin with definitions and then with axioms, which is not the way to proceed in this kind of reasoning. Not that the mind does not do so, but it does it tacitly, naturally, and without technical rules; for the expression of it is beyond all men, and only a few can feel it. Blaise Pascal, Penses

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