17/08/2020
📝MAJOR DIVISION & SUBDIVISION OF SCIENCE
Formal Science
🔰deals with abstract ideas and mental faculties
🔰scientific study of formal language disciplines concerned with formal systems
🔰examples
✔mathematics
✔statistics
✔theoretical computer science
✔artificial intelligence
Social science
🔰 the scientific study of human behavior and societies
🔰example
✔sociology
✔economics
✔political science
✔history
✔geography
✔ethics
Natural Science
🔰deals with understanding and description of nature (natural phenomena) based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation
🔰can be divided as:
(1) pure science and applied science
(2) life science and physical science
🔰pure science deals with scientific theories, facts, principles and concepts while applied science deals with practical application of theoretical sciences (e.g. medicine, engineering)
🔰Life science includes biology and its branches while physical science includes physics, chemistry, earth science and astronomy.
📌Applied Science – deals with the application of theoretical sciences like social and natural sciences (e.g. medicine, engineering, architecture)
💭Though this post tried to divide science into major division or branches, but science isn't always easily divided into branches as there is much overlap between them.
📝To give you an glimpse on the relationship between the different division/subdivision/branches of science, take a look at the table below.
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