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Science, an activity based on the application of the scientific method,
which is founded in Logic, will be free - in principle - from ideological
constraints.

Hypotheses, in order that they be called scientific, will be required to
be either provable or disprovable with respect to the observations
defined by an experiment. Whether or not any assertion constitutes a scientific theory
will be a question that will have an answer independent of any ideology.

In practise, of course, ideology will have its sad place in the sciences,
for the following reason.
Scientific hypotheses of interest - that is, hypotheses that are not
mathematical theorems - will be required to be falsifiable, rather than provable, with
respect to sets of possible observations, in turn defined by experiments.
At any given point, that is, a scientific hypothesis's validity will not be knowable,
even in the case that such theory is eventually disproved.

Here crowd reasoning will manifest itself. There will typically be a consensus
among the members of a scientific community as to the accepted hypotheses of
the day, even though it will not be possible to name reasons that this theory
is preferable over that.

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