I’m thinking one could try to set up this system and let researchers join if they want (e.g. if they want to advertise their results through the system). Postmodernists and others who would not want to use the standardized terminology would not join, but if the system became sufficiently influential, this would presumably be to their disadvantage.
‘Influence’ is a strange thing as it depends not only on the factors we want it to depend on. ‘Ideally’ we’d want scientific results to be the ultimate criterion but the effort to publish in high impact journals shows that it is not so. It could a very long time until such a system is fixated in the scientific ecosystem.
My idea is very much in line with the Unity of Science movement; an idea that I am unfashionably positive to. Science should not be compartmentalized—even though there should of course be a thorough division of labour science should be a heavily integrated enterprise.
I’m learning more and more that my thoughts are not original.
‘Influence’ is a strange thing as it depends not only on the factors we want it to depend on. ‘Ideally’ we’d want scientific results to be the ultimate criterion but the effort to publish in high impact journals shows that it is not so. It could a very long time until such a system is fixated in the scientific ecosystem.
I’m learning more and more that my thoughts are not original.