... ambience ambition ambivalence 2. In the 1940s, Robert K. Merton, the American sociologist, described the values of science in this way: "Four sets of ... enactment." antecedent anterior antipathy antithesis 5. Thus, clashes between ideals about knowledge as a common good on the one hand and knowledge as an instrument and as the private ... science. tentative tenuous torturous tortuous 10. The convention is a product of ideals about knowledge as a common good, but it encompasses, at the same time, the complicated relationship...