Descriptive science

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A descriptive science, also called a special science, is a form of inquiry, typically involving a community of inquiry and its accumulated body of provisional knowledge, that seeks to discover what is true about a recognized domain of phenomena.

Syllabus

Focal nodes

• Inquiry Live
• Logic Live

Peer nodes

• Descriptive Science @ InterSciWiki
• Descriptive Science @ MyWikiBiz
• Descriptive Science @ Subject Wikis
• Descriptive Science @ Wikiversity
• Descriptive Science @ Wikiversity Beta

Logical operators

Exclusive disjunction Logical conjunction Logical disjunction Logical equality

Logical implication Logical NAND Logical NNOR Negation

Related topics

Ampheck Boolean domain Boolean function Boolean-valued function Differential logic

Logical graph Minimal negation operator Multigrade operator Parametric operator Peirce's law

Propositional calculus Sole sufficient operator Truth table Universe of discourse Zeroth order logic

Relational concepts

Continuous predicate Hypostatic abstraction Logic of relatives Logical matrix

Relation Relation composition Relation construction Relation reduction

Relation theory Relative term Sign relation Triadic relation

Information, Inquiry

Inquiry Dynamics of inquiry

Semeiotic Logic of information

Descriptive science Normative science

Pragmatic maxim Truth theory

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• Descriptive Science, InterSciWiki
• Descriptive Science, MyWikiBiz
• Descriptive Science, Semantic Web
• Descriptive Science, Wikinfo
• Descriptive Science, Wikiversity
• Descriptive Science, Wikiversity Beta
• Descriptive Science, Wikipedia