Timeline for What is the last definition of "science"? what is its difference with knowledge?
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| Apr 17, 2022 at 23:14 | comment | added | Jo Wehler | @Logikal I completely agree with you. In order to keep the list simple I omitted the loop. But apparently I should add it now. | |
| Apr 17, 2022 at 23:12 | history | edited | Jo Wehler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2022 at 22:01 | comment | added | Logikal | I liked this answer BUT you left out a bullet point. If we numbered the bullet points on order as you wrote them [you wrote a sum of 5] I would ADD "repeat process over again: repeat steps 1 to 5." In this way science is a life time process. If new information becomes available the new generation of scientists should be able to add to Knowledge. If we leave off the repeat process how do we add new breakthroughs? Perhaps experts evaluate a theory and 20 years later we recognize the experts made a mistake. We need the ability to adjust. | |
| Apr 17, 2022 at 13:01 | comment | added | user6527 | @C.F.G "But there is almost no observing in theoretical physics." theoretical physics is constrained by observations. They may not be the scientists that do the actual observing, but that doesn't mean that observations are not involved. However, observations are not always the starting point for science, in some cases things can be deduced from the theory (e.g. gravitational lensing) and then looked for afterwards. | |
| Apr 17, 2022 at 11:43 | comment | added | Jo Wehler | @C.F.G. I am not quite sure whether 'science' is a synonym for 'natural science' in British English and in American English. - In any case, mathematics is a formal science like logic. It aims on discovering the structure of and the relation between abstract concepts. But mathematics can be used also as the language to formalize mature natural sciences. - Different than natural science mathematics does not aim at explaining observed phenomena. Not every discovery, e.g. mathematical discoveries like Pythagoras' theorem - is an observation. | |
| Apr 17, 2022 at 9:21 | comment | added | C.F.G | Hmm ... so mathematics is not science? in history, mathematics grew up by observing phenomena like Pythagorean triangle, but nowadays it is told that it is based on some postulates. So math was science in past centuries and today is not? that is ridiculous. | |
| Apr 16, 2022 at 22:19 | history | edited | Jo Wehler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2022 at 21:59 | comment | added | Jo Wehler | @C.F.G Theoretical physics is part of physics. Results in physics are obtained by theoretical physics and by experimental physics, sometimes in the form of answer and reply, sometimes as joint work. | |
| Apr 16, 2022 at 21:53 | comment | added | C.F.G | "A typical science is physics" But there is almost no observing in theoretical physics. So theoretical physics is not science? | |
| Apr 16, 2022 at 21:10 | history | edited | Jo Wehler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2022 at 21:00 | history | answered | Jo Wehler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |