On what scientific principles is Technocracy based?
1) From the beginning, the members of the Technical Alliance wanted to create an analysis that was thoroughly factual in nature. They considered nothing philosophical, moral, or religious in their findings. This way, any person could objectively verify the validity of their findings. Thus, science was chosen as their vehicle of research. In order to better understand the value of this, it is important to know upon what principles science itself is based. Science uses three tools for its work. These are facts, definitions, and postulates. Facts are related to the real world and are based on observations made by humans. When several of these observations agree with each other, they may be considered fact. If ever a fact fails to stand up to more observations, it loses its status as a fact. Definitions are wholly arbitrary in nature. They can be easily disputed since they rely on an agreement upon a definition. An example may be whether or not to call a certain distance a meter. If others
