In these eleven days I have learned that psychology, as a formal science, is pure hocus-pocus.

Could a formal science of human nature be helpful to ordinary men and women?

In mathematics and other formal sciences, first-order or first order most often means either:

Unlike other sciences, the formal sciences are not concerned with the validity of theories based on observations in the real world.

However simple that may sound, it is fundamental both in formal science and in everyday affairs.

Methods for relative dating were developed when geology first emerged as a formal science.

He rapidly progressed to producing his own original treatises on a range of subjects covering both formal and natural sciences.

The formal sciences, which also include statistics and logic, are vital to the empirical sciences.

The word science is used in the sense of natural, social and formal sciences - areas of research that tend toward positivism.

Although formal sciences are conceptual systems, lacking empirical content, this does not mean that they have no relation to the real world.