Abstract
At some point, we may want to ask radical questions: after all, why should human sciences be patterned after natural sciences? After all, why is it that we need to have such a monolithic model of scientificity? Why couldn't there be several ways of being 'scientific'? Let us review the major characteristics of natural sciences and later we'll see to what extent they can apply to the human sciences. Objectivity is one of the cardinal notions of natural sciences. This notion implies that science cannot be a series of arguments of authority which go something like, 'it is true because I or some figure of authority told that it was true'. Religious authority has always been one of the key targets of objectivity. Science developed in opposition to religion as a source of authority and so, scientific truth developed against religious truth.
