In this meditation upon science, we point to certain crucial distinctions, such as that between science as a methodology, as opposed to science as a body of theory, noting that efforts to the contrary notwithstanding, it is an all but inevitably political practice.
Among the challenges we encounter in our public conversations is a welter of confusion around crucial terms which, though widely used, are rarely defined... or at least rarely defined explicitly. The consequence is a situation where rather than aiding progress in conversation, they frequently impede it. This is one effort to encourage remedy of this impasse by at least approaching the definition of some of these terms...
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