ABSTRACT
Science has staked out a special territory by investigating mainly the inanimate and the impersonal, often regarding the animate as a special sort of inanimate object. It seeks out the world of repeatable, public fact that is, in a sense, timeless and unchanging. In doing so, science inevitably divorces itself from the unique and the subjective and largely from the whole phenomenon of becoming. Its statements about timeless universals build up a picture in our minds that transcends individual experimentation and that seems to raise timeless universality to a higher level. Meaning is abstracted from myriad observations and used to create an all-embracing, coherent image of the universe. But the meaning of that creation is not to be found in the creation itself, but in concepts that function on a higher level. Inescapably, science requires its metascience.
