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	matt's thesis
		Science, as an epistemological method, did not generate a world picture in which humans began to conceive of the world as it was presented as objects.
		Science, therefore, as the theory of the real, must be understood as a way of approaching being such that its manner of observation seeks out what is to the extent that it can be subsumed in representation as that which stands against the subject.
		Science cannot explain how being conceives of itself such that science came to be the most ascendant way of thinking about being.As such, the holding-sway of science is necessarily grounded in an aspect of being within the modern age that precedes science, yet undergirds the scientific program with persuasive conviction.
	www.earlham.edu /~phil/thesis-schreiber.html (9376 words)

	Science & Spirit
		Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thoroughgoing an association as possible.
		It is the aim of science to establish general rules which determine the reciprocal connection of objects and events in time and space.
		The fact that on the basis of such laws we are able to predict the temporal behavior of phenomena in certain domains with great precision and certainty is deeply embedded in the consciousness of the modern man, even though he may have grasped very little of the contents of those laws.
	www.science-spirit.org /webexclusives.php?article_id=557 (1883 words)

	Art - Science - Technology - Holography
		It is not too difficult, either, to talk about holography as an art form, if this is done merely by stating that these 10 or 25 persons are holographic artists and, consequently, characterizing what comes out of their hands as holographic art.
		I believe that most artists inspired by, and working with science and technology have learned to recognize creativity - or call it art - in many more disguises than that of the usual obligatory domesticated piece of artwork as a carrier of ideas and feelings.
		When science is not art (use of intuition) and art is not science (exploration, discovery, recognition) neither of the two is fascinating.
	www.holonet.khm.de /Holographers/Johansen_Frithioff/text/Art-Science.html (1250 words)

	Brown/Making Truth: Metaphor in Science. Chapter 1
		But science is important, in both intellectual and practical terms, to those in whom it generates a sense of fear and loathing as well as to its champions.
		Just as important as the specific facts and concepts of science are ideas of how and where those facts and concepts arise, the nature of the truth they represent, their authority or contingency, and their relationship to other forms of knowledge.
		If the text materials used in science education are defective, it is quite likely that the appreciation and understanding of science that is expected to derive from their use will be defective as well.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/brown/ch1.html (5738 words)

	Money, Method, and the Market Process Ch 1
		The social sciences in general and economics in particular cannot be based on experience in the sense in which this term is used by the natural sciences.
		The social sciences owe their progress to the use of their particular methods and have to go further along the lines which the special character of their object require.
		The reformers who wish to improve the social sciences by adopting the methods of the natural sciences sometimes try to justify their efforts by pointing to the backward state of the former.
	www.mises.org /mmmp/mmmp1.asp (5054 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Science in Theater
		In this way science is used as a metaphor, and the audience who are not scientists may identify with the protagonist and put themselves in his place as individuals with their own private dreams and aims which may be opposed to those of society.
		Science and society: Brecht puts into Sagredo’s mouth the dangers of society’s reaction to science: “It is a night of disaster when a man sees the truth.
		It is perhaps an attempt on the playwright’s part to bring science close to the people by putting it solidly on their side, with the young and the honest men of the people, and against the authorities, the aristocrats, the stuffy intellectuals and the hidebound professors.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=485 (8354 words)

	Chapter Introduction of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
		Yet, on the other hand, it is astonishing how rarely we detect contradiction; the mind of the author has already harmonized the whole result to truth and probability; the general impression is almost invariably the same.
		Where they are imperfect, it is commonly from the study of brevity, and rather from the desire of compressing the substance of his notes into pointed and emphatic sentences, than from dishonesty, or uncandid suppression of truth.
		Science and Discovery Kits for 5 to 12 year olds.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25642/4.html (686 words)

	cDc's Bovine Dawn Dojo :: View topic - Eat Me OR: Science is doo doo
		Rigorous science, particularly mathematics, touted to be the infinite and universal truth, is unable to account for such instances in which nature defies itself.
		Science, seen by simpletons as a grand and elaborate construct of the mind, a castle among haphazard, destitute shacks of subjectivity and incompleteness, was itself built on a fault line, ever-vulnerable to its grounds opening up and swallowing every last piece of labored masonry.
		The exactitude of science, its rigidity, perceived to be the greatest strength of this modern religion, is, in actuality, its damnation.
	www.cultdeadcow.com /bovinedawn/viewtopic.php?p=453 (1448 words)

	Dowsing and Science - An inevitable partnership?
		It is relatively easy to expose the nebulous nature of science as an activity because it is difficult to state with exactitude what exactly science is based upon.
		Science is defined more by what it does than by what people say it is. Apologists for science can point out the benefits of the discipline.
		Science may be able to explain much of the world I see around me, but, through dowsing I have come to glimpse other areas which science has difficulty in acknowledging.
	www.canadiandowsers.org /Article_Nigel1.html (2897 words)

	Anthroposophy and Science
		The use of the single word "science" to mean "natural science" has lead many people to object that anthroposophy can't possibly be a "science" since it does not deal exclusively with the material world.
		This lead to a common cultural perception that all knowledge derived from material facts is "science", and all thoughts concerning spiritual matters are "religion".
		Beyond tutoring science students at the university level, he conducted laboratory experiments at his own expense in the field of optics.
	www.defendingsteiner.com /articles/a-and-science.php (682 words)

	Albert Einstein: Religion and Science
		Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust.
		As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences." Science, in the immediate, produces knowledge and, indirectly, means of action.
		While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility of goals and evaluations, the independent and fundamental definitions regarding goals and values remain beyond science's reach.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/einsci.htm (5273 words)

	Science Cafe - UCSF
		The physical distance and the demanding nature of the science could be a recipe for confusion.
		The goal of the institute was to mix physicists and computer scientists together and let them develop ideas that would eventually affect human life in a positive way.
		Science Café is now available in audio format and as a podcast.
	www.ucsf.edu /sciencecafe/2006/tang2.html (908 words)

	Towards a Foundation of a Universal Esoteric Science
		So an esoteric science, as suggested here, is not about the path to enlightenment or self-realisation, which is the true goal of mystical and esotericist practice, but about understanding the "intermediate realities" between the objective physical and the transcendent.
		Science therefore is a methodology that works supremely well on the gross physical plane, when dealing with purely physical; objects, and less well with more subtle things.
		In science, dogmas become old paradigms that obstruct new ideas, and have to be overthrown, and are only with difficulty.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Esoteric_Science.html (7463 words)

	Wesleyan University Writing
		The Science in Society major strives to integrate many disciplines in its quest to examine the way knowledge is produced and understood in various cultures and sub-cultures.
		Exactitude in the definitions of key terms is essential in philosophy.
		Ideally, a philosophy paper is supposed to have a clear thesis statement in the last sentence of the first paragraph, and the first sentence of each succeeding paragraph should refer back to this thesis.
	www.wesleyan.edu /writing/workshop/departments/sisp.ctt (1537 words)

	Inka Accounting Practices -- Pärssinen et al. 310 (5756): 1903d -- Science
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		Colonial testimonies argue unanimously for the exactitude of the system (10).
		We have demonstrated previously that when khipus were read, every now and then ±1 errors occurred on whichever decimal level (10).
	www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/310/5756/1903d?rss=1 (1139 words)

	John Greschak - Composers on Mathematical Music: Subtext 2571291
		Generally a musician is not too fond of sciences, especially of those that in his opinion have no connection with music.
		At mathematics, however, he looks with scorn, because in his opinion the obvious exactitude of this science cannot be reconciled with the artistic liberty of musical creation.
		But this science is, as a foundation for musical speculation and technique, even more suspect to the musician than was mathematics.
	www.greschak.com /poems/comm/s2571291.htm (267 words)

	Metanews: Soft science
		Laypeople and academicians alike tend to judge fields such as sociology, psychology, and political science as "soft" because they are presumed to be understandable, devoid of mathematical rigor, and concerned with everyday concepts such as interpersonal relationships.
		Government officials, he noted, will sometimes label social science projects unfairly as research into "what everyone knows anyway" because the topics are, by their nature, closely tied to everyday life.
		Government allocations for social science research were on the rise through the end of last year, but Gans cautions against assuming that this upward trend will continue during the period of Republican dominance in Congress.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/21stC/issue-1.1/soft.htm (596 words)

	Article-Six Memos for the Next Millennium/the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86 -Vintage International-
		Lightness is followed by quickness (without "presum[ing] to deny the pleasures of lingering"), exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.
		The sixth, which was to be called "Consistency", he intended to write on his arrival in Cambridge, but Calvino died before making that journey from Italy to Harvard University.
		Calvino draws on areas as diverse as mythology, poetry, art, science and history to illustrate his theses, and brings fresh insights to, for example, the story of Perseus and Medusa.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_six_memos_for_the_ne-0679742379.htm (1636 words)

	Saint John Perse
		Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
		For if poetry is not, as has been said, "absolute reality", it comes very close to it, for poetry has a strong longing for, and a deep perception of, reality, situated as it is at that extreme limit of cooperation where the real seems to assume shape in the poem.
		Thus it is enough for the poet to be the bad conscience of his age.
	www.caricom.org /jsp/projects/personalities/saint_john_perse.jsp?menu=projects (1483 words)

	National Republican Senatorial Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Shelby mentioned in passing USA's plans for a $50 million science and engineering complex, to which he has steered $10 million in federal money, and pledged to earmark $30 million more.
		Nicholson, who hails from the Los Angeles area, said she came to USA because it was one of a handful of colleges that offers an undergraduate biomedical science degree.
		She said she'll stay at USA over the summer to do research on salmonella and then hopes to go to work for a biotechnology company or research organization.
	www.nrsc.org /newsdesk/article.aspx?ID=2347 (648 words)

	Times Argus: Vermont News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Yet the show, which opens Thursday in the Current Science & Technology Center on the second floor of the Museum's Red Wing and runs through April 30, is hardly the stretch last year's "Lord of the Rings" exhibit was.
		Named with happy exactitude, "Where Science Meets Imagination" is a different galaxy entirely: A hugely enjoyable movie-memorabilia flea market that doubles as an eye-popping, hands-on tour along the leading edge of scientific breakthroughs.
		Interactive exhibits on robot vision and prosthetic parts are backed up with real-world science and human docents, and I'm not sure which is more transfixing: Anakin's mechanical arm or the retinal implants and microprocessor knee on display at a nearby learning stand.
	timesargus.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051027/NEWS/510270302/1023 (1028 words)

	Philadelphia Inquirer \| 02/02/2007 \| Editorial \| Let the science speak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A summary of the published, peer-reviewed science as of December 2005, this first installment is expected to link global warming definitively to humans burning fossil fuels.
		But acknowledging climate science would be a change of habit for the Bush administration.
		It's true that climate science lacks exactitude, as research continues to evolve.
	www.timesleader.com /mld/timesleader/news/opinion/16602329.htm (351 words)

	Net Teaching 1993: Peirce Telecommunity Project
		And since one of the three major dimensions of the project as a whole is a library/information science project, the only thing that is likely to be unclear as regards criterion (2) is the relationship to teaching as well as research, to which we will return briefly below.
		As for criterion (4), since ours is a humanities project which will require funding at a level approaching what is normally expected in the sciences, we are well aware of the importance of reconciling elegance and economy and are prepared to give a substantial description of our strategy in that respect.
		As regards its intrinsic scholarly justification and its value as providing a testbed for R and D both in computer science and library/informational science, our project is based on (1) the international and interdisciplinary interest in Peirce's work, (2) its generally recognized intellectual value, and (3) the unusual opportunities it offers--because e.g.
	www.cni.org /projects/netteach/1993/prop22.html (955 words)

	Epistemology and Modern Physics
		Hence the physical sciences are assured of having a unique significance for philosophy, though this has not always been apparent in equal measure to philosophers of different periods.
		First, that is, that they represent logical presuppositions of science, so that without them we could erect no structure of connected truths about nature at all; but secondly, too, that these principles are self-evident for us, so that we simply cannot imagine their invalidity, and hence that our ideational consciousness is inexorably linked to them.
		For the empiricist is unable to join in the lament of many onlookers, that physics is constantly changing, that its theories are short-lived and that hitherto supposedly correct laws are liable to be overthrown at any moment by new discoveries.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/schlick.htm (2358 words)

	Geotimes - May 2000: Political Scene
		Is the state of the science adequate to cope with the inevitable challenges?
		If we are to hold a landowner legally accountable to numeric standards, we need to be sure that our science is up to it.
		McLellan is the American Geological Institute's 1999-2000 Congressional Science Fellow and a professor of geology at the University of Maryland.
	www.agiweb.org /geotimes/may00/scene.html (1397 words)

	NIFL-AALPD 2004: [NIFL-AALPD:1806] PD & Scientific Analysis
		Perhaps, if you'd like, we can move on to a detailed survey of the hypotheses bearing on the problem and to the types of experiments that would help to evaluate the strengths of such hypotheses.
		This hypothesis, too, could be refined, but if one stays with it for the moment for the sake of moving the discussion forward, the next step (still working on Popper's second stage, is the articulation of and setting up of the types of experiments which would lend support or refute the hypothesis.
		Science without the quotes is what we are about here, not "science" as it is being referenced, which is a kind of parody of real science, as I know you agree.
	www.nifl.gov /nifl-aalpd/2004/0882.html (670 words)

	Amazon.ca: A New Kind of Science: Books: Stephen Wolfram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Physics and computer science genius Stephen Wolfram, whose Mathematica computer language launched a multimillion-dollar company, now sets his sights on a more daunting goal: understanding the universe.
		On the frontier of complexity science since he was a boy, Wolfram is a champion of cellular automata--256 "programs" governed by simple non-mathematical rules.
		This being in obvious contradiction with the view held by many since Plato, that mathematics is the queen of sciences and of the universe itself, it warrants some elaboration.
	www.amazon.ca /New-Kind-Science-Stephen-Wolfram/dp/1579550088 (3248 words)

	Amazon.com: Exactitude: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Exactitude aint interesting, Romare Bearden: January 19th-March 6th,...
		of charms,' is that which suited her in all its exactitude, and best described her whole person.
		and trends for a pre- diction of certainties of mathematical exactitude.
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Exactitude&search-type=ss&tag=mycumberlanmo-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (436 words)

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