Fair point. How about we replace it with "the scientific method has always been about finding the best way to approach the real truth about a subject of enquir

Fair point. How about we replace it with "the scientific method has always been about finding the best way to approach the real truth about a subject of enquiry, and to further refine that approach through further study. The object is, and always was, about truth. Of course it can be applied to poetry, insofar as there can be a 'truth' about poetry. The author's point is vacuous, because he presumes to resolve a conflict he himself invented or imagined."