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by spacebanana7 1635 days ago
How do you define science? Most attempts at formal definitions involve some sequence of hypothesis/experiment/observation (e.g. wikipedia [1]). With such definitions, however, it's not clear that the employment of some respectable modes of learning like mathematics or the historical method amount to doing science.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method