This is one of those Western dichotomies that makes me bananas.
All human cultures have *some* form of "this thing I tried did not work, how can I fix this". Enshrining it as a set of systematic rules does not mean that it was suddenly an invention of the West, nor something which is Western. (Having the attitude that something is not real until it's captured in a series of statements *is* Western.)
All human cultures have some experimentation. There are plenty of things which are not universal. Positing "science" as one of those non-universal things is ... I do not have words to describe that that aren't flamebait.
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Date: 2011-05-17 08:40 pm (UTC)This is one of those Western dichotomies that makes me bananas.
All human cultures have *some* form of "this thing I tried did not work, how can I fix this". Enshrining it as a set of systematic rules does not mean that it was suddenly an invention of the West, nor something which is Western. (Having the attitude that something is not real until it's captured in a series of statements *is* Western.)
All human cultures have some experimentation. There are plenty of things which are not universal. Positing "science" as one of those non-universal things is ... I do not have words to describe that that aren't flamebait.