FIELD OF ALL KNOWLEDGE

 

 

Opinion                Revelation                Philosophy            Mathematics Science

Ideas?

Usually vague

Ideas of ultimate questions

Precision

Precision

Empirical Q

 

Long-standing

Systematic

Systematic

Falsifiable

 

Approaching systematization

 

Provable theorems

Scientific Method

 

From God

 

Accepted axioms

Toward theory sets

Toward personal agenda

Toward social control, spiritual development

Toward ethics, epistemology, and other ultimate questions, dealt with by reason

Accurate description of world through number/counting

Toward accurate description and prediction of world

 

 

 

Theory

            Common usage: abstract thought or conjecture

            In Science

  1. general principles of a subject
  2. plausible or scientifically accepted general principles
  3. Set of provable, and partially proven, hypotheses