 Kant argued that aesthetic judgments were not an area of systematic knowledge, and therefore were outside the realm of Wissenschaft.Although "Wissenschaft" and "science" were roughly comparable words in previous centuries, the word "science" in English "has narrowed its meaning incomparably, whereas Wissenschaft...has retained its broad meaning".In modern English, the word "science" refers to systematically acquired, objective knowledge that is about a particular subject (the workings of the natural world, including the people in it) and produced through a particular methodology (the scientific method), in a progressive, iterative process that builds on previous knowledge.