RE: [asa] Coulter, and science

There is an obvious difficulty with Zimon's definition of science. A
term like researchers is equivocal. Suppose the research is Christianity
not as a kind of knowledge but based on the subject matter of the
personal experiences of Christians as they exercise their faith. I am
sure we can find "the widest possible consensus among competent
researchers." Does that make the Christian faith a science? One must
specify the subject matter of a kind of knowledge in order to determine
the nature of that kind of knowledge. In the definition of science I
use, the subject matter of science is data that can be collected, in
principle, by purely physical devices.

Moorad

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Regarding Moorad's request:
 
>Perhaps we can hear someone's operational definition of science so
>that we all know what science is and what it is not.
>
>Moorad
 
I'm kind of partial to the definition put forward by John Zimon:
 
"Science is the search for the widest possible consensus among
competent researchers."
 
Dave Bowman

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Received on Tue Jul 11 11:31:04 2006