A/SCIENCE V

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                           C o m m e n t a r i e s  .5

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      As the state increases in extent it must vanish from view since
  fewer margins exist at which it is detectable.  The state thus finally
  becomes certain, and can be only proved or disproved in its own terms.
  When no alternative can be posed, politics is reduced to the question
  of technical function.

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      Though values in a state of science are phenomenological and
  insubstantial, they retain potentials for action, and as such are
  included in a general motivational category to be subsumed by the
  rationalizations of process where by its prescription they reassume
  a value of technical terms.

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     To the extent that technologies, even as science informed instruments,
  are quite literally human extensions, and confine one, as one's own body
  does, to a relationship with action that is both purposeful and naive,
  then to that extent the search for critical ambiguities (or ancient falls)
  in technical practice is doomed to fail.  This is not to say, however,
  that technical artifacts cannot be seen as the god head of the science
  that informs them.
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      Action now proceeds from technical instruments, the political
  portion of which is considered processual and concerns the aggregation
  of unlegitimized commitment.  A process, thus conceived, reconciles the
  potentials for action implicit in unlegitimized commitments, with the
  capacities of rational means.  From what then, does a process derive its
  legitimacy, if not from science?  Invoking the exceptional moral
  expectations imposed on process does little to resolve the question.
  In a state of science the appropriate idiom is prescribed.

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