Sentence examples for formal sciences from inspiring English sources

Those two disciplines were already recognized by the 18th-century Scottish empiricist and skeptic David Hume as concerned merely with the "relations of ideas," and, in a later phase of positivism, they were classified as purely formal sciences.

In a broader perspective, both are part of the tradition of symbolic knowledge in the formal sciences, as first conceived by Leibniz (see Esquisabel 2012).

A theory of scientific knowledge was propagated which sought to renew empiricism by freeing it from the impossible task of justifying the claims of the formal sciences.

IST Austria fosters an interdisciplinary scientific atmosphere: The Institute offers one PhD program with courses for graduate students in all fields of the natural and formal sciences.

What might be most interesting here is just how few investment partners majored in formal sciences like math or computer science, ranking lower than the humanities by just a hair.

Over the latter half of the nineteenth century, the science of aesthetics (Kunstwissenschaft) movement advanced the proposal that art and its qualities especially beauty are subject to scientific analysis on par with the natural or formal sciences.

Höller gave up on formal science in 1993.

Epidemiology emerged as a formal science in the 19th century.

I did not claim, however, that it is an empirical science, like physics and chemistry; rather, it is an a priori science, like the "formal science" of mathematics.

For all of our shows we like to get a mix of science backgrounds — from researchers to people who haven't seen formal science since 8th grade.

The second aha was realizing that we needed to bring in our friend Erin Barker, who is not only a brilliant writer but has no formal science background.