ABSTRACT
Science is the dominant type of knowledge. This fact is legitimated by the claim that science is better than any other type of knowledge. The possible differences in participation can be broken down along six dimensions, T. Parson's pattern variables: Knowledge can be personal or impersonal, conservative or progressive, diffuse or specific, implicit or explicit, particular or universal, and empathetic or dominant. The variable is one of the important to a characterization of modern science, in contrast to the traditional science it was to overcome and in contrast to non-scientific types of knowledge. Diffuseness versus specificity is the dimension commonly referred to when one is about to express some uneasiness about scientific knowledge. Implicit Versus Explicit is a category in which non-scientific types of knowledge seem to be defeated from the first moment on. Science produces knowledge, which is valid all over the world, for each person, in each place.
