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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by jomamaxx on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:23PM (#12649404)
"a proper social science"

Is 'social science' even a 'proper science' ?

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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by apathy on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:46AM (#12650473)
In general, if you have to put science in the name, it isn't.
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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by OJFord on Thursday October 06, 2016 @09:35AM (#12652288)
Computer Science?
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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by apathy on Thursday October 06, 2016 @10:39AM (#12652800)
That's long for math
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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by OJFord on Thursday October 06, 2016 @11:03AM (#12653062)
Which definitely is science; QED.
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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by apathy on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:20PM (#12655753)
Proofs are math, science is uncertain (otherwise why bother running experiments)
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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by OJFord on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:29PM (#12655838)
No, science is - literally - knowledge.
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Re:A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple mat... by dragonwriter on Thursday October 06, 2016 @04:38PM (#12655903)
> No, science is - literally - knowledge.

No, science is a means of generating (and justifying) beliefs, it is not knowledge itself.

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