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People who roam through nature without plan or
purpose may find many things which they did not expect to
find, yet not value what they find because they were not
looking for it. Scientists in their laboratories focus
their attention only upon the behavior of systematically
planned and controlled experiments and rarely find
anything which they did not expect to find, because they
created the context within which to discover whatever they
realize.
The attitudes, emotions, desires, presuppositions,
and fears which guide the research through which
scientific discoveries are made. In that manufactured
context many personal discoveries are nearly impossible --
- because they are contextually inappropriate. The
discoveries of scientists are as much a matter of personal
choice as of objective reality. Scientists' priorities do
much to determine their perceptions of the nature of
reality. The myth of objectivity does not insure that
their discoveries will be independent of their personal
priorities. The myth may blind scientists to the ways in
which their personal choices create the contexts which
determine the appearance of reality to them. Thus the
"objective world" which scientists have "discovered" has
been as much of a fabrication of scientists' choices and
imaginative creativity --- as it has been "out there"
waiting --- independent of scientists' efforts for them to
come to the "objective world" and discover its nature as a
reality independent of how scientists choose to approach
it.
The scientists' approach to reality is essentially
one of controlled experimentation. Without control there
is little hope of scientific discovery. How then can one
scientifically discover the essence of persons and
personal relationships? If the essence of persons and
meaningful personal relationships involves the absence of
control, then it is impossible to analyze the
person/relationships according to the paradigms of the
scientific analysts. Scientific/objective analysis,
predictions, and efforts at control of
persons/relationships are not likely to be meaningful or
helpful because of faulty presuppositions.
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