Wissenschaft

is a term not restricted to the exact natural sciences, as is usually the case in English. Instead, it refers to any kind of systematic knowledge at all (history, sociology, literary theory)

It should be noted that in German, the word for science (Wissenschaft) is not restricted to the exact natural sciences, as is usually the case in English. Instead, it refers to any kind of systematic knowledge at all. In the German sense of the term, history, sociology, and literary theory are also sciences; numerous German philosophers have used the word “science” to describe what they do.

wissenschaft, n.All

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