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Science (from Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is a company that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of explanations and testable predictions about the meaning of natural world.An older still in use today is Aristotle, for whom scientific knowledge is a body of reliable knowledge that can be logically and rationally explained (see “History and etymology” below).

As the science of classical antiquity as a kind of knowledge is closely linked to philosophy, lifestyle dedicated to discovering this knowledge. And early modern times the two words, “science” and “philosophy” is sometimes used interchangeably in the English language. In the 17th century, “natural philosophy” (which today is called “natural science) could be considered separately from the” philosophy “in general. [6] However, “science” also continued to be used in a broad sense denoting a reliable knowledge about a subject, in the same way that is still used in modern terms, such as library science or science policy. .

The strictest sense of the “science” that is common today was developed as part of science became a separate company from the definition of “laws of nature”, on the basis of the earliest examples, such as laws Kepler’s laws of Galileo and Newton’s laws of motion. In this period became more common to refer to natural philosophy as the “natural science.” During the 19 th century, the word “science” became increasingly joined with the disciplined study of nature as physics, chemistry, geology and biology. This sometimes left the study of human thought and society in a linguistic limbo, which was resolved through the classification of these areas of academic study of the social sciences. Similarly, other important areas of disciplined study and knowledge now exist under the general heading of “science” as a formal science and applied science.