The ways to know reality?

[Rayaan]

How would you define reality, if not by a means of science?

I would define reality as just "what really is." The definition might also include the totality of everything that exists. But, in the end, we still do not know if science is the only means of understanding reality. You may think it is, but that doesn't necessarily make it true. For example, there may exist other dimensions and/or regions of space in the universe in which the laws of physics become totally obsolete and everything that happens there is completely unpredictable and unexplainable by science. If that was the case, which is not impossible, then this would invalidate the idea that science is the only means of understanding reality.

Reality is reality, but our beliefs about it and our method of understanding it varies from person to person. Hence, in my opinion, understanding reality is always a subjective process, even for scientists. We don't even know whose understanding of reality is the right one because, again, it is subjective.

Sure maybe, but how would we know that if that were the case? It seems that we can only understand reality with what we got.

Yeah, we can't know whether or not there are indeed other ways to know reality. That's the reason that subjective methods (or non-scientific methods) of understanding reality cannot be logically rejected as a part of trying to know reality. Science may be the best way and the most trustable way, but that doesn't exclude the possibility that there may be other ways, too, which do not exist in the realm of science but exist in people's subjective thoughts and experiences.