Ur-science

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Early, original, or foundational science countable, uncountable

    "It would be natural to suppose that it is classical logic (or some near thing) that lays rightful claim on the status of this ur-science."

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proto-scienceprotoscience

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"It would be natural to suppose that it is classical logic (or some near thing) that lays rightful claim on the status of this ur-science."

Etymology

From ur- (“primitive, original”) + science.

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