western science

collocation in English

meaningsofwesternandscience

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western
adjective
uk
/ˈwes.tən/us
/ˈwes.tɚn/
in or from the west of ...
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science
noun
uk
/ˈsaɪ.əns/us
/ˈsaɪ.əns/
(knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of theories to describe the results of ...
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(Definition ofwesternandsciencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Where indigenous voices are extant they are refracted through the prism of western knowledge andwesternscience.
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This is doubtless related to the current deep-seated relativism concerning the intellectual pretensions ofwesternscience.
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Westernsciencehas found its method to single out systems that are familiar to us - namely, those that we control in a practical sense.
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Knowledge ofwesternscienceis often scanty or incomplete.
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In documenting competition as well as co-operation it is also my intention to destabilise the traditional dichotomy betweenwesternscienceand indigenous knowledge in at least two ways.
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We have achieved all these results by successfully marshallingwesternscienceand utilising the products of a superior western civilisation.
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Westernscience, technology, and literature became fashionable.
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The curriculum was weighed towards navigation andwesternscience.
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Those who are familiar withwesternscienceare often good at knowing the vast variety of resources available to solve problems in the developing world.
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He argues that both traditional beliefs andwesternscienceare applications of theoretical thinking.
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The corresponding aspects of western civilization are usually denigrated and despised, as arewesternscienceand technology.
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The universally applied model of conservation based onwesternscienceoften clashes with indigenous knowledge of the environment.
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Philosophers identify independent, logical reasoning as a precondition to mostwesternscience, engineering, economic and political theory.
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Such operation is considered impossible bywesternscienceand there have been many criticisms of the alleged transplantations.
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He liked the two starring actors, and said thewesternscience-fiction format of the show provides far more fun, and sly intelligence, than viewers might initially suspect.
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