ABSTRACT
Since the ‘Scientific Revolution’ of the seventeenth century Western philosophy has increasingly taken as its paradigm of knowledge scientific knowledge. By ‘science’ I mean any systematic inquiry that uses empirical experiments and mathematical models to obtain predictive knowledge of its subject matter. It is essential to science that the subjective point of view of the inquirer is suspended so that any findings have a neutrality or objectivity that makes them available to any unbiased learner. It is characteristic of scientific prose to be couched in the grammatical third person and to treat any subject matter as entirely physical.1
