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The Domination of Astronomy Over Other Disciplines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

Lynn E. Rose
Lynn E. Rose*
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State University of New York at Buffalo
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Nature is one. Science should be one. But we see that contemporary ‘science’ is fragmented into disciplines, departments, and specialties in an arbitrary and artificial manner. Our ‘science’ has fallen to these present depths under the sheer weight of its accumulated data and literature. Since no one of us can any longer hope to sift through all of the paper that has been accumulated, we face a choice: we can admit how little we know about nature as a whole – or we can restrict our areas of knowledgeability to fit our capacities, and thus continue to appear knowledgeable.

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Symposium: Velikovsky and the Politics of Science
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1974 , 1974 , pp. 468 - 476
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Copyright © 1976 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht-Holland

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