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To: f.Christian
sci·ence   Audio pronunciation of "science" ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (sns)
n.
    1. The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
    2. Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
    3. Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.
  1. Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.
  2. An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.
  3. Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.
  4. Science Christian Science.


[Middle English, knowledge, learning, from Old French, from Latin scientia, from scins, scient- present participle of scre, to know. See skei- in Indo-European Roots.]

870 posted on 05/09/2003 2:00:44 PM PDT by Quick1
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To: Quick1
dogma > c : a point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds
2 : a doctrine or body of doctrines concerning faith or morals formally stated and authoritatively proclaimed by a church


Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.

like the ghosts -- boogeyman!

873 posted on 05/09/2003 2:04:25 PM PDT by f.Christian (( Marching orders: comfort the afflicted // afflict the comfortable ! ! ))
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To: Quick1
You probably had very little in your brain to wash ... easy to fill --- overflowing !
876 posted on 05/09/2003 2:09:52 PM PDT by f.Christian (( Marching orders: comfort the afflicted // afflict the comfortable ! ! ))
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