Science is, in Carse’s terms, a finite game; philosophy and religion are infinite games. Science is convergent on a target, that becomes – theoretically, if not in practice – more certain as it is approached, and the point of the process lies in achieving that target; yet philosophy and religion are divergent, as the nature of the target becomes less certain as it is approached, and the point of the process lies in itself. For science knowledge is things; for philosophy and religion knowledge is a process of understanding what these things mean.
