Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes — George Molland Early in the nineteenth century John Playfair wrote for the Encyclopaedia Britannica a long article entitled ‘Dissertation; exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Mathematics and Physical Science, since the Revival of Letters … History of philosophy
Science moderne — Science Pour les articles homonymes, voir Science (homonymie). Prométhée apportant le feu a … Wikipédia en Français
Predictive power — The predictive power of a scientific theory refers to its ability to generate testable predictions. Theories with strong predictive power are highly valued, because the predictions can often encourage the falsification of the theory. The concept… … Wikipedia
science, philosophy of — Branch of philosophy that attempts to elucidate the nature of scientific inquiry observational procedures, patterns of argument, methods of representation and calculation, metaphysical presuppositions and evaluate the grounds of their validity… … Universalium
Predictive validity — In psychometrics, predictive validity is the extent to which a score on a scale or test predicts scores on some criterion measure.For example, the validity of a cognitive test for job performance is the correlation between test scores and, for… … Wikipedia
Predictive State Representation — In computer science, a Predictive State Representation (PSR) is a dynamical system representation that keeps track of the state of the system using predictions of future observations. A PSR s state is grounded directly to statistics over… … Wikipedia
Science — This article is about the general term, particularly as it refers to experimental sciences. For the specific topics of study by scientists, see Natural science. For other uses, see Science (disambiguation) … Wikipedia
Science — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Science (homonymie). Allégorie de la Science par Jules Blanchard. Située sur le parvis de l Hôtel de ville de Paris La … Wikipédia en Français
Science-fiction de langue allemande — Littérature allemande de science fiction Cet article fait partie de la série Science fiction La SF à l’écran autre A B … Wikipédia en Français
Science (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of science Mach, Duhem, Bachelard Babette E.Babich THE TRADITION OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE If the philosophy of science is not typically represented as a ‘continental’ discipline it is nevertheless historically rooted in… … History of philosophy
Science wars — The Science wars were a series of intellectual battles in the 1990s between postmodernists and realists (though neither party would likely use the terms to describe themselves) about the nature of scientific theories. In brief, the postmodernists … Wikipedia