Definitions, Definitions - What They Mean In Science
Friday, August 28, 2009 - 23:57
in Psychology & Sociology
Scientists are often assumed to be obsessed by definitions. After all, if you cannot precisely define a concept, say what a planet is, or what a biological species is, you literally don’t know what you are talking about, and how can you then possibly do science using that very same concept? And yet, the practice of science is very different, and to a surprising extent does not seem to depend on definitions of its objects of study. read more