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Anonymous Sun Oct 16 17:45:36 2011 No.3912680 [Reply] [Original]

What's the science of science?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 16 17:46:36 2011 No.3912682 math

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 16 17:46:36 2011 No.3912683 scientology horf dorf

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 16 17:49:36 2011 No.3912697 >>3912680 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience its only partly a thing. anyone getting involve now will have job security for life!

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 16 17:50:36 2011 No.3912700 File: 100 KB, 570x579, just-like-humans01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3912682 no it's not math. It's metaphysics. followed by logic. then math.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 16 17:53:36 2011 No.3912721 >>3912700 I never metascience I didn't like.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 16 17:54:36 2011 No.3912724 Philosophy

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 16 17:55:36 2011 No.3912728 philosophy of science

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 16 17:55:36 2011 No.3912732 File: 79 KB, 570x380, just-like-humans02.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3912721 what?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 16 17:59:36 2011 No.3912751 >>3912680 Jesus Christ on a fucking pogo stick, it's that guy from No right answer on Escapist, isn't it? Anyway, on topic, the closest you'll come to the science of science is sociologist studying lab-coat culture or the philosophy of science.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 16 18:17:36 2011 No.3912827 >>3912680 what is the math of math? But in terms of examining how science works, science is a subset of Bayesian reasoning. You don't hear this that often because the relation between Bayes and science isn't explicitly taught in a lot of classes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 16 18:37:36 2011 No.3912903 >>3912827 >Bayesian reasoning ah, like austrian economics (the only real economics).