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Re:Science of Science by srfilipek on Friday July 05, 2019 @07:08AM (#20361573)
> science of science is epistemology

That would be the Philosophy of Science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science

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Re:Science of Science by stillbourne on Friday July 05, 2019 @10:45AM (#20362877)
You are not wrong but he's not either. The science of science, or metascience, is a field of epistemology, is a philosophy of science. They are all part of the same thing.
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Re:Science of Science by camelNotation on Friday July 05, 2019 @10:13AM (#20362641)
Epistemology is the study of knowledge. If science isn't a form of knowledge, what is?
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