Anything that calls itself a Science, probably isn’t… | O'Really?
Science, is a big word that gets used and abused with reckless abandon. Virtually any discipline can award itself extra kudos by adding the magic S word at the end. For example, which sounds weightier, sports studies or sports science?
“Science has become something of an honorific term, and all sorts of disciplines that are quite unlike physics or chemistry are eager to call themselves ‘sciences‘.
A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is that anything that calls itself a science probably isn’t.” –see [1,2]
So are maths, physics, chemistry, biology etc real sciences™ too? Using Searle’s definition, it’s difficult to say. To avoid confusion, it might be a good idea to use a subjects non-scientific original name (“biology” rather than “life science”) that way, we know (paradoxically) they are real sciences. Probably.
In general terms I think the word “science” has been used lately in an oversized way due to technological growth. In semantics of words as in many other things related to linguistic studies and cultural development of societies we can observe mutations and changes throughout history and it is normal to happen, but it is also logical for us to question and think about the true meaning of this term.
