Descriptive science

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A descriptive science, also called a special science, is a form of inquiry, typically involving a community of inquiry and its accumulated body of provisional knowledge, that seeks to discover what is true about a recognized domain of phenomena.

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Focal nodes

Inquiry Live

Logic Live

Peer nodes

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Logical operators

Exclusive disjunction Logical conjunction Logical disjunction Logical equality

Logical implication Logical NAND Logical NNOR Negation

Related topics

Ampheck Boolean domain Boolean function Boolean-valued function Differential logic

Logical graph Minimal negation operator Multigrade operator Parametric operator Peirce's law

Propositional calculus Sole sufficient operator Truth table Universe of discourse Zeroth order logic

Relational concepts

Continuous predicate Hypostatic abstraction Logic of relatives Logical matrix

Relation Relation composition Relation construction Relation reduction

Relation theory Relative term Sign relation Triadic relation

Information, Inquiry

Inquiry Dynamics of inquiry

Semeiotic Logic of information

Descriptive science Normative science

Pragmatic maxim Truth theory

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• Jon Awbrey, “Propositional Equation Reasoning Systems”

• Jon Awbrey, “Differential Logic : Introduction”

• Jon Awbrey, “Differential Propositional Calculus”

• Jon Awbrey, “Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems”

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