ABSTRACT
In both scientific and non-scientific cultures, attempts are made to control and predict the behaviour of other persons and the environment. One obvious thought is that there may be some important structural difference between explanations people call scientific and those they call non-scientific. The advance of knowledge in any domain is probably aided if a person's thoughts and ideas are written down. Ideas about how the world works are often tested, not only in scientific cultures but also in non-scientific cultures, by virtue of practical applications either being successful or failing. Perhaps people who live within in a non-scientific culture have fundamentally different assumptions about the world than those who live within a scientific culture. Western societies typically are liberal in the sense that they tolerate free thought and the emergence of alternative points of view. There may be a number of ways in which scientific and non-scientific cultures differ.
