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According to the Oxford English Dictonary: noun a branch of science which deals with the physical world, e.g. physics, chemistry, geology, biology
by DrJokepu 17y ago
According to the Oxford English Dictonary:
noun a branch of science which deals with the physical world, e.g. physics, chemistry, geology, biology
- andreyf 17y agodeals with the physical world Eek, don't like it. What is "the physical world"? Or rather, what isn't part of "the physical world"? It's just a matter of creating models for phenomena of increasing complexity. Just as biology studies a set of phenomena emergent from enormous amounts of bio-chemical interactions, which are emergent from quantum physics, etc., economics is emergent from the psychology, beliefs, and interactions of people.