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Wiki MarkupNygren argues that "\[w\]e can only speak of science where there is a possibility of objective argumentation." In the sciences, he insists, "it is not enough simply to postulate and assert. We demand reasons for the assertion" (219). _sufficient_ _condition-as it seems to me Nygren either supposes or fails to make clear that he does not suppose (d.,

But granting that the possibility of some form or mode of objective argumentation is indeed a necessary condition of the possibility of speaking of science, I question whether it is also a sufficient condition—as it seems to me Nygren either supposes or fails to make clear that he does not suppose (cf., e.g., 120). _ _111._ _In fact, I should want to hold that it is _ _not_ _ a sufficient condition of the possibility of speaking of science, but only of critical reflection and proper theory._ _intellectual_ _question rather than an existential question. That is, the constitutive question of science, which is to say, all sciences and kinds of science in the strict and proper sense, is the question of_ _structure in itself,_ _not the question of meaning for us._

But granting that the possibility of some form or mode of objective argumentation is indeed a necessary condition of the possibility of speaking of science, I question whether it is also a

theory.

Also necessary, in my view, to the possibility of speaking of science, strictly and properly so-called, is that the constitutive question of the critical reflection and proper theory involved be an intellectual question rather than an existential question. That is, the constitutive question of science, which is to say, all sciences and kinds of science in the strict and proper sense, is the question of structure in itself, not the question of meaning for us.Also necessary, in my view, to the possibility of speaking of science, strictly and properly so-called, is that the constitutive question of the critical reflection and proper theory involved be an

3 October 2002; rev. 28 November 2005