modern science
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodernandscience
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modern
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ən/us/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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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 ofmodernandsciencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Modernsciencehas dispelled this.
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Modernsciencetakes us little further.
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Intertextual reference presented rhetorical problems to the nineteenth-century mathematician that are absent inmodernscience.
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Their cultural agenda, therefore, required the demarcation of a boundary betweenmodernscienceand modern secularism.
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Indeed, habits of thought and belief played an important role in the shaping ofmodernscience.
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History is on his side : since the inception ofmodernscience, inexorably these gaps have diminished.
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Predictive molecular medicine and immunobiology are encouraging new arenas ofmodernscience.
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A significant and distinctive feature ofmodernscienceis its transcendence of cultural and national boundaries.
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What couldmodernscienceteach us about the possibilities for human progress?
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Such doctrines, known as occultism, fall outside the realm ofmodernscience.
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A related problem is that there are plenty of counter-intuitive concepts also inmodernscience.
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This is especially true if the development ofmodernscienceis viewed as continuous.
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It must also be a sanitary and disease-free city, displaying the accomplishments ofmodernscience.
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It had only a distant "family resemblance" to the concept of energy inmodernscience.
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This problem surfaced as the issue of whether the rise ofmodernsciencewas a natural development of premodern philosophy.
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It was even possible to incorporate parts ofmodernsciencein the old texts; but never more than that.
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For example, if you are translating some scientific text, the culture is 'modernscience', which is universal.
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The assumption is that disciplines are not a merely trivial structural aspect ofmodernscience, useful only for librarians'classifications.
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Nevertheless, inmodernscience, there is a valid use of analogy, namely, as a source of hypotheses.
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Thus, archaeology is pre-eminently amodernscience, made possible by the advantages and contradictions of modern progress.
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In sum, this is a stimulating study that offers new insights into the transition from medieval to earlymodernscience.
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But it should be remembered that the same was true of many of the great names of earlymodernscience.
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Belief that the universe is designed was the centrepiece of a philosophy of nature thatmodernsciencehas abandoned.
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It gave them a fixed philosophical point from which to begin their consideration of how to confrontmodernscience.
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Accordingly,modernsciencebegins with a healthy distrust of received dogma and an insistence on reason and empirical proof.
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