The 'It' language of 'hard' Science
On the right hand are those paths that start with
objective, empirical, and often quantifiable observables.
These overall approaches take the physical or empirical world
as most fundamental, and all theorising must then be carefully
tied to, or anchored in, empirical observables.
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The 'I' and 'We' language of the Arts and Folk Culture
On the left hand are those paths that start with the
immediacy of consciousness itself – let us call them the ‘interior’
or the ‘introspection and interpretation’ approaches.
These approaches do not deny the importance of empirical or
objectivist data, but they point out … that the definition
of the word data is ‘direct experience’, and the only
genuinely direct experience each of us has is his or her own
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