Science

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• "Science": a broad term
• Types of science
• Science examples

In general, "science" is known to all body of knowledge systematically ordered in order to describe realities and give answers to various questions.

The evolution of science It is perhaps the most significant development of the human being as a species, since throughout the existence of man science has progressed substantially.

Without a doubt what was contributed by the so-called "It was prescientific" it was a decisive starting point, without which the levels of scientific progress we see today would never have been reached.

"Science": a broad term

Despite the fact that a definition of science has been given, it must be said that this is permanently put into discussion and is subject to constant revisions, so it is by no means worth saying that it is a unique definition.

Likewise, a huge number of debates to establish whether or not a given discipline is a science: perhaps the most important is the question of method, since from many academic sectors it is considered that only that knowledge that was obtained from a specific methodological process.

In this way the knowledge generated can eventually be disproved. It is a conception that revalues ​​the scientific dynamics, which makes a lot of sense because a large amount of knowledge that at one point seemed absolute and complete, later was refuted. This methodological requirement may be too rigorous for certain disciplines.

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Types of science

Most science theorists have agreed to distinguish between:

• Formal sciences: who are concerned with creating their own field of study.
• Factual Sciences: they deal with analyzing and studying what really happens in the world.

For Plato, one of the leading thinkers in the history of mankind, the former are the most important, since they deal with the world of ideas and they sustain all the others.

The second classification, which is already fully involved in the factual sciences, came some time later and divides the exact sciences from the human:

• Exact Sciences: (to a greater or lesser extent) respond to criteria logical and demonstrable about how the world works.
• Human Sciences:make up the disciplines that have to do with behavior of human beings (and not with the conditions underlying him, such as his biological condition), either in his individuality or in society.

The disciplines related to the human, as has been said, can hardly respond to the methodological criteria that are demanded from some sectors of the academy to science, but not for that reason they should stop being considered as scientific disciplines, but rather it is chosen to elaborate alternative methods, such as the historical, the sample or the anthropological one.

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Science examples

This is the list of twenty sciences, starting with two formal, then nine sciences are indicated exact and finally nine sciences human:

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• Examples from Social Sciences
• Examples of Natural Sciences
• Examples of Scientific Discoveries