I like the classical ideals concerning logic and science. I see science as the application of the scientific method to the study of nature.

Unfortunately, the Kantian/Hegelian tradition redefined the term "science." 

Both the Left and Right (progressives and conservatives) have adopted the new definitions. So, my ideas about science are in the minority.

Hegel promoted a process call sublation.  Sublation is a dialectical process in which the meaning of terms change with usage.  When skillfully applied, dialecticians can turn a word into its opposite.

It is easier to explain the process of sublation with a different term.

In the 1830s, there was a push for radical electoral reform in England. The electoral districts (boroughs) were based on power divisions from centuries earlier. Some "rotten boroughs" had only a dozen voters but their votes were considered equivalent to large cities.

The two parties were the Tories and the Whigs. The Tories favored the supremacy of the King. The Whigs favored the supremacy of Parliament.

The Tories were dependent on the rotten boroughs for their power base.

King William IV (the youngest son of King George III) saw the reform as an existential threat. He appointed Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister and tasked Peel with the task of rebranding the Tory Party for the modern world.

Sir Robert Peel looked toward a political group in France called "La Senate Conservateur" for inspiration. The Senat Conservateur in the group that brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power and crowned Napoleon Emperor.

Anyway, Sir Robert Peel rebranded the Tories as the "Conservative Party." To this day, Conservatives refer to themselves as Tories.

You may recall from US history that the Tories were the people who leveled their muskets at the US Founders. The US Founders named the actions of King George III as a primary cause for the revolution.

This may come as a surprise to you, but King George III and his sons did not like the US Founders.

King George III saw the US Founders as unprincipled ideologues whose pursuit of an ideal called liberty led to the break up of the English Empire.

In the early 1800s, people used the term "liberal" to describe the ideals of the US Founders.

The Conservatives sought to destroy this thing called "liberalism." The conservatives turned to George Hegel and the process of sublation. Conservatives then began a multi-century effort to turn people against liberalism by projecting negative images on the term "liberal."

A group called progressives formed. They took the negative definition of liberal and ran with it. 

Political discourse is dominated by two groups that use the sublated definition of the term "liberal."

So, what does this have to do with science.

Conservatives and progressives alike use the term "science" to describe this dialectical process.

The term "science" is pretty meaningless. It is like the term "liberal."

Science is simply a term that politicians use for political gain.

Since both progressives and conservatives are married to the  modern definition of science as a dialectical process there is no way to restore the classical meaning of the term.



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