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Re: What is Science?

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Originally Posted by Rade View Post
The question has been asked:

....does a child exercise science when walking - down a staircase?....

Of course it does. Consider the view, the child at top of staircase, ready to take first step. The first foot moves, but the knowledge of how and where it will land on step, or even if step is sturdy, is uncertain. And anytime one has uncertain knowledge of an action to be taken and/or of an existent, one uses science to gain information, for Science is defined as Uncertain Knowledge.
Then I suppose it should follow that a spider exercises engineering when it builds its web.


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