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Most subjects that have the word "science" in the name aren't science: social science, computer science, political science, etc. While the real sciences, don't
by spullara 4y ago
Most subjects that have the word "science" in the name aren't science: social science, computer science, political science, etc.
While the real sciences, don't have it: physics, chemistry, biology, etc.
- whatever1 4y agoIs chemistry hard science? We mostly memorize a ton of arbitrary rules about how things should react and behave. We still get surprise molecules with surprise properties. The science part is that we identify them and add them to our long catalog of rules, but is it hard science ? I would only classify math and some physics as hard science.
- spullara 4y agoMath isn't science.
- jltsiren 4y agoThat's a tired argument. Those subjects are called the way they are, because they were named in a culture that preferred plain straightforward names. Computer science could have been computing, informatics, or datalogy. Political science could have been politology. Sociology is already a thing, but it's narrower in scope than social science. Incidentally, I'm writing this in a place called "Physical Sciences Building".
- spullara 4y agoThey are named that way to give them some kind of authority when they aren't actually science (i.e. those things studied using the scientific method). You are being way too charitable.