The word means to put in proportion and there is no THE proportion except in relation to what works on specific occasions. And, historically speaking, 'what works' keeps on changing. Science was started by wealthy amateurs whose 'laws' may apply locally, and locally only, but they have been turned into dogma and all 'Law' means is 'the done thing'. He found the amount dissolved is critically affected by planetary conjunctions. This merely shows that rigid confinement to a single and measurable dimension in an experiment plainly fails.
Water is a rather important substance in many ways.
When I asked the weather bureau in Melbourne, now years ago, how come cloud and rain patterns appeared to match magnetic current flows I was told water is H2O whereas it contains pollutants, isotopes, dissociated H and O plus trace elements and so would be electromagnetically affected by what we now know as the solar wind, sunspots and extra solar system activities. Thus not all is well in the State of Denmark. Similarly the adherence to an unprovable assumption, that neuro-biology accounts for all of our thinking and mind, is defended with a strength one finds rather puzzling. En fin, to what degree does, or does not, Institutionalised teaching get confused with science as the queen of all knowledge whereas originally science belongs with crafts, not metaphysics. Mariela Szirko here draws our attention to the politics of the matter and that politics may not, cannot define and decide on the uses of the mind.