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jeffdown1 at Jul 11, 2017 10:43 PM

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MEANING
Introd.
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For this purpose, I must first explain what meaning signification I attach
to the word "science, and why; and then what I understand by
"a science" and by "a branch of science", and why.

The word science, with the corresponding Latin and Green words, scientia
and (??find Greek in unicode), has been used at different times in three principal senses.
As long as Aristotle reigned, science was defined as "knowledge through
principles," which was as much as to say, syllogistically demonstrated
knowledge. But this manifestly conflicts with modern notions since,
in the first place, it excludes all the physical, natural, psychological,
philosophical, historical, an other sciences, which for us constitute science
par excellence, an in the second place makes the conclusions of a syllogism
science, while its a least as well-known premisses may not be science.
Therefore, this use of the word is to be utterly rejected. Coleridge in his

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