Natural science
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The 49th plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur of 1904, showing various sea anemones classified as Actiniae.
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"The Darwinian theory has no more to do with philosophy than has any other hypothesis of natural science."--Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) by Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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In science, the term natural science refers to a rational approach to the study of the universe, which is understood as obeying rules or law of natural origin. The term natural science is also used to distinguish those fields that use the scientific method to study nature from the social sciences, which use the scientific method to study human behavior and society; and from the formal sciences, such as mathematics and logic, which use a different (a priori) methodology.
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See also
- Empiricism
- List of academic disciplines
- Nature
- Natural history
- Natural philosophy, the precursor of the physical sciences.
- Science
- Science wars
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