The term “science” is a common noun that is used to designate a whole range of activities. If Reeves is right—and I think he is—that there is no essence to these activities that allows them to be objectively identified and demarcated from nonscience, then what qualifies as science is determined by communities. It becomes much more difficult on this antiessentialism position to identify and dismiss pseudo‐science. I suggest we might find a way forward, though, by engaging a philosophical tradition that has largely been neglected in English‐speaking science and religion studies, and by articulating a theory of consensus along the lines of Oreskes (2019).

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科学和其他常见名词：反本质主义的进一步含义

“科学”一词是一个通用名词，用于表示整个活动范围。如果里夫斯（我认为他是对的）是对的，那么这些活动没有本质可以客观地识别和与非科学区分开来，那么什么才是科学由社区决定。在这种反本质主义立场上，要识别和驳斥伪科学变得更加困难。我建议，我们可以通过走一条在英语科学和宗教研究中已被很大程度上忽略的哲学传统，并沿着Oreskes（2019）的立场阐明一种共识理论，来​​找到前进的道路。