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Could I ask you a question about the passage below? why does the writer ‘a science’ instead of ‘science’?

What is science? Everyone knows that subjects suh as physics, chemistry, and biology constitutes science. We are not asking for a mere list of activities that are called ‘science’. Rather, we are asking what it is that makes something a science.

Vsuresh · Accepted Answer

Here, by "a science", the writer probably means anything that possesses the characteristics of a scientific entity.

Nel0506 · Answer

thttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Arts_and_Sciences

1. First, it's because we have the arts and we have the sciences. It's a countable noun sometimes, and a non-count noun also.

There are many fields of study/disciplines that are considered (a) science. See above.

There are many types of art, too. 'The Museum of Modern Art.' Islamic art, Japanese art, the plastic arts (ex. sculpture).

Adherance to use of the scientific method of inquiry is probably the central defining characteristic that makes a science not an art.

It's confusing because we also use both as general/non-specific terms - with no article - when we think of it more like an activity. What is art? What is writing? What is medicine? What is science?

It has 2 forms of use.

**As a countable noun that is general - and not specific - it takes an indefinite article, 'a' or 'an.'

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