| Serious: V2, 62 A phenomenon is ”serious” when it accepts an interrogative word and can render a logical answer to the designed question. A serious phenomenon like a kitchen sponge absorbs reasonable questions and, by pressing it, sheds rational answers. Science and scientific methods are those pressures that a serious phenomenon requires. Additional information from the same volume and page: If we can put a question word —like ”what, which, when, where, why, and how”— on a phenomenon and design a reasonable question, we have taken the first step to seriousizing the subject. The next step is to answer the question in the same framework that we designed it. |