The Only Principle That Does

There Is No "scientific Worldview" Just As There Is No Uniform Enterprise "science" - Except In The Minds Of Metaphysicians, School Masters, And Scientists Blinded By The Achievements Of Their Own Particular Niche... There Is No Objective Principle That Could Direct Us Away From The Supermarket "religion" Or The Supermarket "art" Toward The More Modern, And Much More Expensive Supermarket "science." Besides, The Search For Such Guidance Would Be In Conflict With The Idea Of Individual Responsibility Which Allegedly Is An Important Ingredient Of A "rational" Or Scientific Age.

It Is Often Assumed That Science Starts From Facts And Eschews Counter-factual Theories. Nothing Could Be Further From The Truth. What Is One Of The Basic Assumptions Of The Scientific World-view? That The Variety Of Events That Surrounds Us Is Held Together By A Deeper Unity.

When Western Civilization Invaded The Near And Far East And What Is Now Called The Third World It Imposed Its Own Ideas Of A Proper Environment And A Rewarding Life. Doing This, It Disrupted The Delicate Patterns Of Adaptation And Created Problems That Had Not Existed Before.

Events And Developments, Such As ... The Copernican Revolution, ... Occurred Only Because Some Thinkers Either Decided Not To Be Bound By Certain "obvious" Methodological Rules, Or Because They Unwittingly Broke Them.

There Is Not A Single Rule, However Plausible, And However Firmly Grounded In Epistemology, That Is Not Violated At Some Time Or Other. It Becomes Evident That Such Violations Are Not Accidental Events, They Are Not Results Of Insufficient Knowledge Or Of Inattention Which Might Have Been Avoided. On The Contrary, We See That They Are Necessary For Progress.