Natural Sciences

Consider the question: “why superstition?” Our problem lies in circumscribing this notion itself: is it something we should use to characterize beliefs, or attitudes, or theories or actions or all of them? Our linguistic usage allows it mostly of ‘beliefs’ and to the act of believing: to believe that walking under the ladder brings bad; to believe that vampires exist and walk as ordinary humans in …

My proposal addresses itself to the following observation: the natural sciences, as we know them today, arise in the western culture. What ’natural sciences’ mean in the above statement is clarified by other sentences that say, for example, ’the rest of the world has accepted the western science and technology..’ or ‘we need to learn science and technology form the west..’ When we make these kinds …