Science is a worldview according to which the building (process and results) of knowledge must be rigorous and coherent: built from clear bricks, each brick must be based on another brick, and any structural detail must be tested for strength. What does it mean:
- in life feelings can be good, but in science we rely on reason,
- the use of strict, defined concepts,
- all statements must be substantiated by facts or other verified statements,
- all theories must be proven experimentally
- at the basis of theories there can be no ideas about the Higher Forces arbitrarily interfering in earthly life.
Science promises reliable reproducibility of results made with its recipes.
Science, scientificity and practicality
Science often conflicts with practicality. Science is very strict and puts many restrictions, and in order to get results here and now, one often wants to free oneself from these boundaries. Well, it’s not exactly scientific. Or not scientific at all. But will there be a result? — This is a really difficult place, this is a lively conflict, and see separate articles about this.
Practicality of scientific knowledge. There are many problems here.
Science and religion. In different eras, science and religion coexisted with each other in different ways.
Science and mysticism. Science and mysticism do not fit together. The mystic admits that the circumstances of earthly life can be magically changed if the Higher Powers (with whom the mystic has contact) intervene in them. With good contact with the Higher Forces, they will make the tram go in the opposite direction at the right time, coffee grounds will tell you in which fund to invest money, and even a long-dead person can be resurrected. See →
Science and pseudoscience. See → and also Determining the weight of unscientific
Science and practical psychology. Is the scientific nature of practical psychology necessary? The task of strengthening the scientific foundations of practical psychology. Science and different paradigms of practical psychology. Style of publications of practical psychology. For all this, see →