Correct Answer - Option 2 : Reality
Science as a discipline has its unique perspective. Science is not limited to observation, experimentation, and analysis only rather it is a way of life. Science is an expanding body of knowledge through the process of inquiry.
Nature of Science:
- Science is socially and culturally embedded.
- Science is inferential, imaginative, and creative. It is subjective and theory-laden.
- Science is empirical (based on or derived from developed observation of the natural world).
- Science is not merely a collection of evidence of happenings rather it attempts to understand happening through analysis, testing, and verification.
- The value of science comes from its economical and political importance, but science seeks the truth by observing important values: a scientist must be honest, modest, always critical, rejecting any dogmatism and any fraud, but also creative, imaginative, and able to work collectively.
- The main values of science to be rigorous, rational, honest, critical, creative, etc. can explain how science aims as far as possible at the truth (even if the scientific knowledge is always under construction) but it is impossible to say that science is the only truth in our world.
Thus, it is concluded that Reality is the value of science for nature.
