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Traditional
convictions regarding science (such as universalism, necessity and eternal
validity) are currently in doubt. Relativism seems to destroy scientific claims
to rationality. This paper shows a way to keep the traditional convictions of
scientific knowledge while acknowledging relativism. With reference to the
practicing scientist, we replace descriptivism with constructivism; we modify
relative validity with the claim to understanding; and, we offer methodological
strategies for acquiring understanding. These strategies we call strangification,
which means taking a scientific proposition system out of its context and putting
it in another context. We can thus see the implicit presuppositions of the
given proposition system by means of the problems arising out of the
application of this procedure. Such a change in the understanding of science
holds important consequences.
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