Could you elaborate on this? What do you mean by Science? (reasoning? knowledge?)
The thing whose weakness seems relevant to me is a cultural tradition of doubting religion. Also, prerequisites which I have trouble articulating because they are so deeply buried: perhaps a changing notion of benevolence.
I’ll take a wild stab in the dark and say that he probably meant that the method of reasoning was not as sophisticated back then. You could call the Aristotelean method of reasoning from empirical observation a “strengthening” of science. Nevertheless you could still say that “science” was much weaker back then compared to Popper’s critical rationalism, with its emphasis on falsification.
Nevertheless, I’m sure I will be informed if this interpretation is wrong, which will hopefully help me be less wrong in the future.
Science was weaker in these days
Could you elaborate on this? What do you mean by Science? (reasoning? knowledge?)
The thing whose weakness seems relevant to me is a cultural tradition of doubting religion. Also, prerequisites which I have trouble articulating because they are so deeply buried: perhaps a changing notion of benevolence.
I’ll take a wild stab in the dark and say that he probably meant that the method of reasoning was not as sophisticated back then. You could call the Aristotelean method of reasoning from empirical observation a “strengthening” of science. Nevertheless you could still say that “science” was much weaker back then compared to Popper’s critical rationalism, with its emphasis on falsification.
Nevertheless, I’m sure I will be informed if this interpretation is wrong, which will hopefully help me be less wrong in the future.