Science is defined to be:
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science:
noun
The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic
study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world
through observation and experiment : the world of science and
technology.
- a particular area of this : veterinary science | the agricultural
sciences.
- a systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular
subject : the science of criminology.
- archaic knowledge of any kind.
ORIGIN Middle English (denoting knowledge): from Old French, from
Latin scientia, from scire ‘know.’
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Note that this definition has no mention of the words "real" or
"reality" in it. Notions of reality are part of philosophy (typically
metaphysics and epistemology), not science.
Godfrey
On Mar 29, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Gautam Sarup wrote:
I'd say that if the mystics want to change the definition of
science they
can't. Science is still (and always will be) the study of
reality. The
"study of non-reality" if such a thing is possible will always be
mysticism.
There is no logical need to morph one into the other.
On 3/29/06, Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Science today studies much that isn't real. That's a 19th century
definition.
