Thus, so far as Alexander is concerned, science is the process of 'figuring something out' while the documentation of that discovery is largely irrelevant.
Offering detailed reconstructions of the procedures of knowledge production, Rescher argues that rational inquiry, including science, is the process of creating coherent theories that systematize that which we have established as data with increasing complexity (Rescher 1982).
Laying a solid foundation of what science is, the scientific process, and what it can tell us, is essential for students to understand and appreciate scientific theories, such as evolution.
Ideally, science is the systematic process of testing multiple hypotheses, but as practiced by real people, it is also distinctly social.
(Evapotranspiration, an important term in water science, is the combination of two processes: evaporation [the conversion of liquid water to water vapour] from the soil and transpiration [the process by which water absorbed by the plant, usually through the roots, is lost as vapour from the plant surface, occurring mainly at the leaves] by plants growing in the soil).
Part of the process of science is the historical development of ideas: as Williams notes, this is usually inadequately dealt with in science classes.
Despite how clear the science is, the message is still in the process of catching on and for everything modern medicine has done to make HIV serodiscordant sex safe, stigma against HIV-positive people remains high.
Another emerging trend in environmental health science is the reevaluation of the default process to evaluate human health risk after exposure to environmental agents.
Fundamental to all the sciences is the underlying process of scientific investigation, often referred to as "the scientific method" in educational settings.
I spoke with a much less radical member of the NPA, Steve Puetz, who told me that his main problems with science are the peer-review process and the recent concept that philosophy is "unnecessary baggage".
A concept such as photosynthesis will have ascribed to it a general meaning for the purposes of school science, for example: 'photosynthesis is the process whereby green plants convert carbon dioxide and water into useful carbohydrates using energy from sunlight, producing oxygen as a waste by-product'.
