ABSTRACT
If you were to refer to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary (September 5, 2009), there is one de‰nition that ‰ts the current context of this discussion:
3 a: knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scienti‰c method; b: such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena: natural science.
