GLOSARY :D

 PHILOSOPHY:

a : pursuit of wisdom

b : a search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means c : an analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs.


SCIENCE

1: the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding

 2a : a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study <the science of theology>

KNOWLEDGE.

The fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association (2) : acquaintance with or understanding of a science, art, or technique.


EPISTOMOLOGY:

The study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity .


HERMENEUTIC:

1:plural but sing or plural in constr : the study of the methodological principles of interpretation (as of the Bible)

 2: a method or principle of interpretation

METHOD:

1: a procedure or process for attaining an object: as a (1) : a systematic procedure, technique, or mode of inquiry employed by or proper to a particular discipline or art (2) : a systematic plan followed in presenting material for instruction

b (1) : a way, technique, or process of or for doing something (2) : a body of skills or techniques

 2: a discipline that deals with the principles and techniques of scientific inquiry

METHODOLOGY:

1: a body of methods, rules, and postulates employed by a discipline : a particular procedure or set of procedures

2: the analysis of the principles or procedures of inquiry in a particular field


INDUCTION:

1a : the act or process of inducting (as into office) b : an initial experience : initiation c : the formality by which a civilian is inducted into military service


HYPOTHESIS:

1a : an assumption or concession made for the sake of argument b : an interpretation of a practical situation or condition taken as the ground for action

2: a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences

3: the antecedent clause of a conditional statement


THEORY:

1: the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another

2: abstract thought : speculation


OBJETIVE:


expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations.


SUBJETIVE:

a : characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind : phenomenal — compare objective 1b
 b : relating to or being experience or knowledge as conditioned by personal mental characteristics or states


ART:

Human creativity.
An occupation requiring knowledge or skill


PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:

It is the systematic study of the scientific thinking of its history and the contributions that help to strengthen it.


RATIONALISM:

1: reliance on reason as the basis for establishment of religious truth



2a : a theory that reason is in itself a source of knowledge superior to and independent of sense perceptions b : a view that reason and experience rather than the nonrational are the fundamental criteria in the solution of problems



EMPIRICISM:

  1a : a former school of medical practice founded on experience without the aid of science or theory b : quackery, charlatanry



2a : the practice of relying on observation and experiment especially in the natural sciences b : a tenet arrived at empirically


3: a theory that all knowledge originates in

   
POSITIVISM:
 
1a : a theory that theology and metaphysics are earlier imperfect modes of knowledge and that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations as verified by the empirical sciences
 
 
IDEALISM:
 
a (1) : a theory that ultimate reality lies in a realm transcending phenomena (2) : a theory that the essential nature of reality lies in consciousness or reason
 b (1) : a theory that only the perceptible is real (2) : a theory that only mental states or entities are knowable



2a : the practice of forming ideals or living under their influence


OBSERVATION:

1a : an act or instance of observing a custom, rule, or law
 b : observance



2a : an act of recognizing and noting a fact or occurrence often involving measurement with instruments <weather observations> b : a record or description so obtained
 
 
CONCEPT:
 
1: something conceived in the mind : thought, notion



2: an abstract or generic idea generalized from particular instances
 
 
LANGUAJE:
 
systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings.
 
 
SEMANTIC:
 
1: of or relating to meaning in language



2: of or relating to semantics
 
 
SEMIOTICS:
 
a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics.
 
 
PRAGMATICS:
 
a branch of linguistics that is concerned with the relationship of sentences to the environment in which they occur.
 
 
 
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