Rather, Sarewitz argues that we need to let go of a longstanding and cherished cultural belief – that science consists of uniquely objective knowledge that can put an end to political controversies.
Let us examine some of Lockshin's examples, to see his idea that science consists of a continuous flow among evidence, logic, and falsification.
The image cultivated to students through science teaching at school is that science consists of objective and value-free knowledge (Kelly 2000; Osborne et al. 2003; Sjøberg 2002a, b, c).
This framework, well-known in the field of implementation science, consists of five domains: reach, efficacy, adoption, implementation and maintenance (Glasgow et al. [1999]).
Most of the art of science consists of formulating falsifiable propositions in just this spirit.
Philosophers of science, who are the arbiters of such issues, say science consists largely of facts, laws and theories.
I saw, to my great astonishment, that scientific time does not endure... that positive science consists essentially in the elimination of duration.
In the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle (384 322 bc) claims that each science consists of a set of first principles, which are necessarily true and knowable directly, and a set of truths, which are both logically derivable from and causally explained by the first principles.
Each Aristotelian science consists in the causal investigation of a specific department of reality.
Locke's philosophy of science consists largely in his metaphysical and epistemological views of material substances and their powers.
