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Conceptions of science. |
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Science as a philosophical discipline, certain or perfect knowledge. |
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The intellectual virtue of science, its relation to understanding and wisdom. |
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The division and hierarchy of the philosophical sciences. |
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Science as the discipline of experimental inquiry and the organization of experimental knowledge, the scientific spirit. |
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The utility of science, the applications of experimental knowledge in the mastery of nature, machinery and inventions. |
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The effects of science on human life, the economic and social implications of technology. |
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The issue concerning science and philosophy, the distinction and relation between experimental and philosophical science, or between empirical and rational science, the limitations of empirical science. |
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The relation of science to other kinds of knowledge. |
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The relation between science and religion, the conception of sacred theology as a science. |
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The comparison of science with poetry and history. |
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The relation of science to action and production. |
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The distinction between theoretical and practical science, the character of ethics, politics, economics, and jurisprudence as sciences. |
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The distinction between pure and applied science, the relation of science to the useful arts. |
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The nature of scientific knowledge. |
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The principles of science, facts, definitions, axioms, hypotheses, unifying theories. |
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The objects of science, the essential and necessary, the sensible and measurable, the abstract and universal. |
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The role of cause in science, explanation and description as aims of scientific inquiry. |
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The generality of scientific formulations, universal laws of nature, the principle of relativity. |
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The certitude and probability or the finality and tentativeness of scientific conclusions, the adequacy of scientific theories. |
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Scientific method. |
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The role of experience, observation and experiment. |
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Techniques of exploration and discovery, the ascertainment of fact. |
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The use of mathematics in science, calculation and measurement. |
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Induction and deduction in the philosophy of nature and natural science. |
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The use of hypotheses and constructed models, prediction and verification. |
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The development of the sciences. |
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The technical conditions of scientific progress, the invention of scientific instruments or apparatus. |
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The place of science in society, the social conditions favorable to the advancement of science. |
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The evaluation of science. |
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The praise of science by comparison with opinion, superstition, magic. |
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The satirization of science and scientists, the foibles of science. |
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The use of science for good or evil, the limitations of science. |
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