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Formal science is a
formal systems. The formal sciences aid the natural and social sciences by providing information about the structures used to describe the physical world, and what inferences may be made about them.[citation needed
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Branches
- Logic (also a branch of philosophy)
- Mathematics
- Computer science
- Systems science
- Statistics
Differences from other sciences
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.
Because of their non-empirical nature, formal sciences are construed by outlining a set of
See also
- Philosophy
- Science
- Rationalism
- Abstract structure
- Abstraction in mathematics
- Abstraction in computer science
- Formalism (philosophy of mathematics)
- Formal grammar
- Formal language
- Formal method
- Formal system
- Form and content
- Mathematical model
- Mathematical sciences
- Mathematics Subject Classification
- Semiotics
- Theory of forms
References
- ISBN 978-0-486-24511-9.
- ^ Carnap, Rudolf (1938). "Logical Foundations of the Unity of Science". International Encyclopaedia of Unified Science. Vol. I. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- ^ Thompson, Bill (2007), "2.4 Formal Science and Applied Mathematics", The Nature of Statistical Evidence, Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol. 189 (1st ed.), Springer, p. 15
Further reading
- Mario Bunge (1985). Philosophy of Science and Technology. Springer.
- Mario Bunge (1998). Philosophy of Science. Rev. ed. of: Scientific research. Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1967.
- C. West Churchman (1940). Elements of Logic and Formal Science, J.B. Lippincott Co., New York.
- James Franklin (1994). The formal sciences discover the philosophers' stone. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 513–533, 1994
- Stephen Leacock (1906). Elements of Political Science. Houghton, Mifflin Co, 417 pp.
- OCLC 59377149.
- Bernt P. Stigum (1990). Toward a Formal Science of Economics. MIT Press
- Marcus Tomalin (2006), Linguistics and the Formal Sciences. Cambridge University Press
- William L. Twining (1997). Law in Context: Enlarging a Discipline. 365 pp.
External links
Media related to Formal sciences at Wikimedia Commons- Interdisciplinary conferences — Foundations of the Formal Sciences
