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Classification of the Sci
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1901) gives references to no less than 146 of them. But one's surprise at the number is considerably reduced on remarking that several different meanings are attached to the word 'science' and its equivalents in other languages by the different authors of those systems. Some by 'science' mean systematized knowledge, others research conducted in certain ways. The idea of the Greek word επιστημη, which is usually translated 'science,' is nearly that which might be expressed by the English 'comprehension.' Some of the schemes proposed have in view the sciences that actually exist in some state of intellectual development, which must of course vary with the date of their invention. Other schemes aim to classify all possible sciences, whether they have ever been heard of or not. One of the most famous of them, that of Francis Bacon's 'De dignitate et augmentis Scientiarum,' has for its principal

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