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*a scientist is a person engaging in a ‘systematic activity’ to acquire ‘knowledge’ that [‘describes’ / ‘predicts’ / ‘backdate?’] the ‘natural world’*
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(in a more restricted sense, a scientist may refer to an individual who uses the ‘scientific method’)
(the person may be an expert in one or more areas of ‘science’)
(the term ‘scientist’ was coined by the ‘theologian’, ‘philosopher’, and ‘historian of science’ ‘william whewell’ in 1833)
(this article focuses on the more restricted use of the word)
(‘scientists’ perform research toward a more comprehensive understanding of ‘nature’, including ‘physical’, ‘mathematical’, and ‘social realms’)
(‘philosophy’ is today typically regarded as a distinct activity from ‘science’, though the activities were not always distinguished in this fashion, with ‘science’ considered a “branch” of ‘philosophy’ rather than opposed to it, prior to ‘modernity’)
(‘philosophers’ aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of fundamental aspects of reality and experience, often pursuing inquiries with ‘conceptual’, rather than ’empirical’, methods)
(‘natural scientific research’ is usually also distinguished from inquiry in the ‘humanities’ more generally, and often with inquiry in the ‘social sciences’ and ‘mathematics’ on various grounds, although these distinctions may be controversial)
(a subtype of ‘scientists’ are known as ‘engineers’, those who ‘design’, ‘build’, and ‘maintain’ devices for particular situations; when ‘science’ is done with a goal toward ‘practical utility’, it is called ‘applied science’ under which ‘engineering’ is a ‘discipline’)
(an ‘applied scientist’ may not be designing something in particular, but rather is conducting research with the aim of developing new ‘technologies’ and ‘practical methods’)
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(when ‘science’ seeks to answer questions about fundamental aspects of ‘reality’, it is sometimes called ‘natural philosophy’, as it was generally known before ‘the ‘1800s’)
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