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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
And that’s the point, one wants to say
What does the highlighted sentence want to say?
Context:
Consequently, when scientists attempt, with the best will in the world, to undertake the task of reconciling science and religion, or rational and postmodernist discourse, or scientific knowledge and artistic invention, they fail to convince and often end up by dismissing their opponents’ beliefs altogether, explaining them ‘scientifically’ but not engaging with them on their own terms, regarding their arguments as not ‘real’ but ultimately irrational and unscholarly. And that’s the point, one wants to say. Sometimes there is no meeting place.
Context:
Consequently, when scientists attempt, with the best will in the world, to undertake the task of reconciling science and religion, or rational and postmodernist discourse, or scientific knowledge and artistic invention, they fail to convince and often end up by dismissing their opponents’ beliefs altogether, explaining them ‘scientifically’ but not engaging with them on their own terms, regarding their arguments as not ‘real’ but ultimately irrational and unscholarly. And that’s the point, one wants to say. Sometimes there is no meeting place.
Top answer
I think it is saying that the point of religion, artistic invention etc. is that it is irrational and unscholarly.
- I think it is saying that the point of religion, artistic invention etc.
- is that it is irrational and unscholarly.
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I think it is saying that the point of religion, artistic invention etc. is that it is irrational and unscholarly.
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How about my interpretation: scientists insist on the distinctions between science and art, religions etc, the way that it seems they really do not have anything in common.
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red appleHow about my interpretation: scientists insist on the distinctions between science and art, religions etc, the way that it seems they really do not have anything in common.I do not see how this specifically relates to the highlighted sentence.
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