{"id":10010,"date":"2023-12-26T19:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/hip-glossary-science\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T19:51:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:51:01","slug":"hip-glossary-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/hip-glossary\/hip-glossary-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Glossary: Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science:<\/p>\n<div><strong>Sci&quot;ence<\/strong> (?), n. [F., fr. L. scientia, fr. sciens, -entis, p.pr. of scire to know. Cf. Conscience, Conscious, Nice.] <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong><br \/>1.<\/strong> Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shakespeare&#8217;s deep and accurate <strong>science<\/strong> in mental philosophy. <em>Coleridge.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><strong>2.<\/strong> Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All this new <strong>science<\/strong> that men lere [teach]. <em>Chaucer.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Science<\/strong> is . . . a complement of cognitions, having, in point of form, the character of logical perfection, and in point of matter, the character of real truth. <em>Sir W. Hamilton.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><strong>3.<\/strong> Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and function of living tissues, etc.; &#8212; called also natural science, and physical science. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Voltaire hardly left a single corner of the field entirely unexplored in <strong>science<\/strong>, poetry, history, philosophy. <em>J. Morley.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><strong>4.<\/strong> Any branch or departament of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind. <em>&amp;hand; The ancients reckoned seven sciences, namely, grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; &#8212; the first three being included in the <em>Trivium<\/em><\/em>, the remaining four in the <em>Quadrivium<\/em>. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no <strong>science<\/strong>, fairly worth the seven. <em>Pope.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><strong>5.<\/strong> Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His <strong>science<\/strong>, coolness, and great strength. <em>G. A. Lawrence.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&amp;hand; <em>Science<\/em><\/em> is <em>applied<\/em> or <em>pure<\/em>. <em>Applied science<\/em> is a knowledge of facts, events, or phenomena, as explained, accounted for, or produced, by means of powers, causes, or laws. <em>Pure science<\/em> is the knowledge of these powers, causes, or laws, considered <em>apart<\/em>, or as pure from all applications. Both these terms have a similar and special signification when applied to the science of quantity; as, the <em>applied<\/em> and <em>pure mathematics<\/em>. <em>Exact science<\/em> is knowledge so systematized that prediction and verification, by measurement, experiment, observation, etc., are possible.<\/p>\n<p>Source:websters1913dictionay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science: Sci&quot;ence (?), n. [F., fr. L. scientia, fr. sciens, -entis, p.pr. of scire to know. Cf. Conscience, Conscious, Nice.] 1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. Shakespeare&#8217;s deep and accurate science in mental philosophy. Coleridge. 2. 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