Ethno-sciences

Japanese: ethno-sciences(英語表記)ethnosciences
Ethno-sciences

... From this new perspective, the diachronic view of the chronological progress of science, that is, the progressive view of history, is denied, and the synchronic view that current Western science is the only correct knowledge of nature is denied. Why then does science appear to be superior to various other "ethno-sciences"? This is fundamentally because the legitimacy and orthodoxy of science is guaranteed by all social institutions, including politics, education, and economics.

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Japanese:

… この新しい立場に立つと,通時的には,科学の時系列上の進歩,つまり進歩史観が否定され,共時的には,現在の西欧的科学のみが唯一の自然についての正しい知識であるという考え方が否定される。では科学が外見上他のさまざまな〈民族科学ethno‐sciences〉に対して優越しているようにみえるのはなぜか。それは,基本的には,現在科学が,政治,教育,経済などあらゆる社会的制度によって,その正当性と正統性とが保証されているからにすぎないと考えられる。…

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