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Science, as a means of knowledge-gathering, has two important features. First, it is a discourse that must be shared as a common pursuit among the participants. It needs to be debated and argued in order for it to advance. This is what makes science a dialectical activity.
It is a journey from disunity to unity, from ignorance to knowledge, and from chaos to order. The second feature of science is that scientists are not allowed to use the results of their research for power-maximization purposes. It's easy to see how different science can be than the politicized version of science that we see today.
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