Science discussing the wider meaning of systematic understanding:

“The parallel technique in science might be called ’represented reality’ or unheralded assertion’ or ‘style indirect inevitable.’ The scientist says, It is not I the scientist who make these assertions but reality itself (Nature’s words in scientists mouth).”

p. 9

A dialectical approach

real as opposed to ideal

“Scientists pretend that nature speaks directly.”

The scientist avoids being questioned for his/her reliability by disappearing into a third person narrative of what really happened.”

p. 10

Science

"But in French and German, and every other language I have looked into, the term is not properly understood as English 'science.' In Japanese, Finish, Tamil, Turkish, Korean, and all the Indo-European languages, the science word means 'systematic inquiry.'... It means in all these other languages merely 'disciplined inquiry,' as distinct from, say, casual journalism or unaided common sense."

"The began to be used in the honorific sense by the English only in the late nineteenth century. The earliest citation . . . of the Oxford English Dictionary is 1867 from W. G. Ward... expressing physical and experimental science, to the exclusion of theological and metaphysical."

p. 20.

Now between 1825-1835 science as a word was coined and was used for defining people who worked in the fields of natural philosophy and natural history. Oxford dictionary mentions the year against when the word was first cited or used in a print, and for the word scientist the year is mentioned as 1834.

In 1834, Cambridge University historian and philosopher of science William Whewell coined the term "scientist" to replace such terms as "cultivators of science."

Do listen to Ira Flatow, NPR

She uses another dialectical approach

Science as a means to some end.

Science, varieties of knowing about natural and humans as natural behavior.

Style is an an appeal to authority

Economic style appeals in various ways to an ethos worthy of belief. For example, a test of claiming authority uses the 'gnomic present,' as in the sentence you are reading now, or in the Bible, repeatedly in the historian David Landes's well-known book on modern economic growth, The Unbound Prometheus (1969)....The advantage of the gnomic present is its claim to the authority of the General Truth, which is another of its names in grammar."

p. 11.
Source:
Deirdre N. McCloskey, Ph.D.
The Rhetoric of Economics. (1985, 96)
The struggle to maintain an adequate–if not accurate–description of commercial exchange.
A dialectical approach

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