Abstract

Not so long ago the physical sciences were looked upon as paradigms of rationality and paragons of progress. Those prophets of science, the logical positivists or empiricists, went so far as to declare most other forms of human discourse or expression, other than logic and mathematics, either nonsensical or emotive--only science which purportedly was grounded on the secure foundations of sense data or ordinary observations and whose theoretical constructs were constructed from these empirical data was considered to be significant knowledge.