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Re: What is science?

Post by Ryuuko » 24 Apr 2020, 22:32

Social science isn't as easy to approach as hard sciences are.

Basically they are fundalmentally different.

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Re: What is science?

Post by unoduetre » 24 Apr 2020, 22:34

Ryuuko wrote:That and computer science but perhaps you don't consider that science either.

Even though that definitely follows logic.

Yup! :)

Also, formal sciences (e.g. mathematics) are different from natural sciences (e.g. physics). Formal sciences do not require experiments, but instead they assume axioms and prove things from them by using logic.

Computer science has aspects of both and different subfields are different. There are some fields which are purely formal (e.g. the definition of the Turing machine and what follows from it), but there are also some fields which are about the natural world and experiments (e.g. quantum computing, physical computers etc.).

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Re: What is science?

Post by unoduetre » 24 Apr 2020, 22:36

Ryuuko wrote:Social science isn't as easy to approach as hard sciences are.

Basically they are fundalmentally different.

Yeah, but the replication crisis is not only caused by the fact that social sciences are in some sense more difficult. It's also because there was a lack of rigour in applying the scientific method. E.g. the articles did not get independently replicated, but they should. Or the publication bias was not taken into account etc.

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