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What Is Science?
March 1, 2008
 
The convention in our society is that common usage determines the meaning of a word.  So we learn what a word really means, not by theorizing about what it "should" mean, but by observing how it is used in reference works (including dictionaries and encyclopedias), by the media, and during discussions.  If we do this for the word “science”, we find the following:
 
There is a loosely organized community of people widely recognized as being "scientists"...
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