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 @ 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

Related articles

• Semiotic Information
• Futures Of Logical Graphs
• Propositional Equation Reasoning Systems

• Differential Logic : Introduction
• Differential Propositional Calculus
• Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems

• Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems
• Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems
• Inquiry Driven Systems : Inquiry Into Inquiry

Document history

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