yes, number theory hehe i was thinking about reading something about it online before i posted this thread but i have not yet, and probably will not. Anything i acquire online from it will be limited and vague anyway most probably.
But, yeah i define science as anything established through observational data and then extrapolated on to create its own code (theoretical explanation) for a phenomenon in reality.
I don't think science has to be "substantiated" because that's all circular reasoning. I don't uphold the social tenet of it being "valid" or whatever as opposed to astrology. I like to group them all in a category and call them science, and some of which i like to subjectively dub "bad science", but i don't really care if difference of opinions incur.
Anyway, yeah well anything in mathematics. 1 + 1 = 2, i'd say that works and was developed not because of faith or anything, but from observations of real life. Hypothetically, People in the past took two objects and put them together and realized there were more than what they called "1" then they called this new "number" "1", all self creations through observations to then extrapolate on all this to create numbers or something (theoretical explanation), that was some dumb version i made up and isn't that good but you get the point. People created science through observations, they couldn't have concocted this by themselves. I, favoring empiricists, would think it'd be impossible for people to just establish math wihtout observations. And, the moment we observe to establish something, it becomes a science. Don't take that out of context though, that doesn't mean we can take that to infinite levels and be like "well, the science of pen twirling" or any other minisculity we could think of. I mean that if you observe and then create a theoretical explanaiton to explain the observed phenomenon, then it is technically a science. Sure, there could be other minisculities, but i don't want to put conditions on the definition.
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