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Taxonomy vs Superscience - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and superscience

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while superscience is a discipline comprehending more than one science.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    superscience

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A discipline comprehending more than one science.
  • * 2002 , Ravi Ravindra, Science and the Sacred: Eternal Wisdom in a Changing World (page 129)
    • What we need is a superscience , a science of the higher nature or of the spirit, a science dealing with the whole arena of purposes and significance and the transformation of being and the laws pertaining to them.
  • * 2001 , Marianne Sawicki, Body, Text, and Science (page 250)
    • By conventional standards, both psychoanalytic and materialist feminist philosophy of science fall short of their ambitions to be supersciences : the science of science. Neither presents an adequate empirical basis.