It is true, everything that scientists do is an extension and refinement of ways of getting at the truth found in ordinary living and various other fields of ex

It is true, everything that scientists do is an extension and refinement of ways of getting at the truth found in ordinary living and various other fields of expert study. The main difference is that modern science systematically excludes supernatural explanations. Much of modern philosophy of science affirms this, such as Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. People want to dispute this basically because they are implicitly subscribing to the philosophical belief that what we ordinarily experience is simply mistaken, and the really real is radically different. This belief is common to metaphysical idealism (such as Platonism) and absolute mysticism, and also materialism, cartesian dualism, and classic analytic philosophy. Other philosophies, such as phenomenology, pragmatism, and the later Wittgenstein, ground our knowledge of reality in our ordinary experience, instead of trying to escape into a radically different realm. A key issue at stake here is finitude. In the realm of ordinary experience, we experience we are limited in many ways, and this means we cannot escape suffering. The various anti-experiential philosophies generally believe that their alleged really real realms are such that we can escape such suffering.