0 knowledge gained by observation and experiment. -- khoa học
1 a branch of such knowledge eg biology, chemistry, physics etc -- khoa học tự nhiên
the physical sciences.
2 these sciences considered as a whole -- ngành khoa học
My daughter prefers science to languages.
Consider how we might begin to work out my earlier suggestions about a critical approach to contemporary science.
We can point to many examples of styles in the sciences and elsewhere that are too widespread to appeal only to local explanations.
But few have directly considered whether such differences involve different ways of doing science: are there epistemic styles for science?
All of this leads to a paradoxical conclusion about national styles in science.
It is this challenge that puts on the table new theoretical issues for social science and public policy.
Rather than either pictorial or symbolic, it might better serve cognitive science to recast this debate into a problem in both pictorial and symbolic terms.
This affinity to the methods of the natural sciences reduces social science to a technical enterprise which has no necessary value implications.
Anxiety about the relativist abyss in which 'all pasts are equal' has thwarted efforts to evaluate alternatives to 'objective science'.
