The word "science" is the hard end of what should be a gradient. Sometimes just "truth-seeking", evidence-based, quantitative or numerate are good enough witho

The word "science" is the hard end of what should be a gradient. Sometimes just "truth-seeking", evidence-based, quantitative or numerate are good enough without having to invoke the spectre of "science". Maybe we need a general term (rational?) for describing appropriate terms, of which "science" is only appropriate to some fields.