Sentences with phrase «language of pure science»

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The first, can appear the model of pure a priori thought, disengaged from the world of experience; the second, a massive collection of detailed descriptions and theories about the enormous variety of material phenomena, but with no intelligible unity; and the third an obscure and generally unrigorous rhapsody of affirmations and aspirations, at one end couched in the languages of politics and sentimentality, and at the other in the terms of a cosmic poetry unregulated by science or philosophy.

He urged them to plead for «sound science» a twist of language of the sort that George Orwell once said was «designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind.»