Disputatio:Scientia
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"Scientia" Latine numquam quod sciam -- neque apud recentiores et recentissimos -- "science" significat, sed potius "knowledge." "Natural science" Latine "phyisca," interdum "historia naturalis" audit. Quod ad "science" latiore sensu sumptum, vocabula Latine quae sunt "methodus," "scientificus," "historia" utcumque ad rem pertinere videntur. ["Scientia" in Latin never, as far as I know, means "science" -- even among modern and contemporary Latin writers -- but rather "knowledge." "Natural science" in Latin is "physica," sometimes "historia naturalis." As far as the more general sense of "science," the Latin words "methodus," "scientificus," "historia" point in some degree toward it.]