Branches of Science Quiz

Study Notes

Natural Sciences: Study nature through the scientific method, using controlled experiments. Also known as experimental sciences or physical-natural sciences.
Formal Sciences: Study abstract objects and systems that exist purely in the mind. Validity is derived from axioms, reasoning, and inferences, rather than experiments.
Social Sciences: Also known as human sciences, study humanity using an empirical and critical perspective guided by the scientific method.

Theory of knowledge.
Deals with the philosophical theory of the origin, nature, and scope of human knowledge.

Investigates how we understand, acquire, and validate knowledge.
Questions the limits of what is possible to know.
Investigates the limits of knowledge.
Revises and challenges accepted methods of knowledge construction from the real world.

Science is a collection of organized, hierarchical, and verifiable knowledge gained through observing both natural and human phenomena.
Science uses experimentation and empirical demonstration of interpretations.

Natural Sciences study nature by using the scientific method to reproduce phenomena experimentally in controlled conditions. Also referred to as experimental, hard or physical natural sciences.
Social Sciences also known as humanities, study humanity, but maintain an empirical, critical, and scientifically driven perspective.
Formal Sciences study abstract objects and systems that can be applied to the real world. Their objects of study exist only in the mind and validity is derived from axioms, reasoning, and inferences, not experiments.

Aims to discover the laws governing the universe through rational, empirical, demonstrable, and universal methods.
Analyzes its objects of study both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Relies on research, critical and analytical thinking, and the steps of the scientific method to formulate laws, models, and theories.

Also known as the theory of knowledge, it deals with ordinary, philosophical, and scientific knowledge.
It explores the origin, nature, and scope of human knowledge.

Epistemology is a science with its own autonomy.
Its history can be traced back to the works of Greek philosophers, such as Plato and Aristotle.
They distinguished between sensory knowledge and rational knowledge.

Examines how humans understand, acquire, and validate knowledge.
Questions how we can come to know things and through which means.
Challenging limits of knowledge by examining and questioning the accepted methods used to build knowledge from the real world.
It is the branch of philosophy that studies how knowledge is obtained and its validity.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), René Descartes (1596-1650), Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), and Isaac Newton (1643-1727) were some of the key figures in the development of modern science.