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How many sciences are there?
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Well, despite the warm reply by @VirOptimus , you could have asked the question better. Because there are many ways to answer the question. There are 3 branches of science (natural, formal and social), and within them you break out into subcategories. For example, within natural sciences you'll find human biology, biology, zoology, botany, meteorology, life science, astronomy, etc. Within the social sciences you have anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, and much more. So what exactly are you asking?
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So you're saying it depends on how one organizes the sciences. That's fine. What might you use to organize them? It doesn't appear on the surface that your categorization stems from the scientific method itself.
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It depends entirely on how you split them up. And the boundaries are fuzzy, which is why we have topics like "geophysical chemistry."
If angels take up space, the area of the pinhead divided by the space occupied by one angel.
If angels don't take up space, arbitrarily many.
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As far as the natural sciences, there really only one mainly because at the edges they all bleed into one another -even astronomy and biology
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When I was in high school (oh so many years ago) they where just introducing the idea that some science disciplines where mixing. Like chemistry and physics, or chemistry and biology. Which made sense since the sciences are based on where people started exploring then based on cultural and personal biases. But the universe is still one big thing where everything interacts.
Biology flows into chemistry since living organisms use it to move and process food, and chemistry flows into physics since all chemistry is the interactions of atoms. It just depends on what you want to study.
Biology flows into chemistry since living organisms use it to move and process food, and chemistry flows into physics since all chemistry is the interactions of atoms. It just depends on what you want to study.
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You're actually going to challenge me? I don't have a dog in this fight... I simply answered your question using an example of the categorization methods that ARE USED BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. So if you have an issue with those methods.... I am not your problem. Call Cornell University or MIT or something?
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And that really is the answer to his question... as he asked the question. On ANY topic we can use scientific methods of analysis to achieve answers or results. Even bible studies can be undertaken from a scientific approach.I'd say...there's as many as we want there to be.
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Are you saying the categorization is arbitrary? That seems a good possibility, though I would offer one practical aspect. Aside from possibly Aristotle et. al., I doubt much thought was given to formally organizing the sciences beforehand. Rather, I expect it was simply a matter of questions.
Someone made an observation and it prompted a question. That question couldn't be derived from the knowledge of existing sciences, and so it became the foundational question of a new science.
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...that's an interesting idea about science as it might apply to bible studies. In what way do you mean; or what application do you think we can make of it upon the Bible, Ken?
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Here is a map of the sciences (from here). You can divide it up how you like. And categorisation can be done by topic studied, or by methods used, or by some combination of the two (e.g. "computational fluid dynamics").
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