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Since time immemorial, science has been evolving, playing an immense role from being a philosophy to a discipline and career. Its nature and categorization into many dimensions render it unique amongst all disciplines. Though the tenets, philosophy, and scientific methods of searching for the truth of the physical world make science stand apart within its realm, it encounters heaps of debates. The article focuses on the nature of science while navigating through its evolutionary journey until the present, and the way it emerged as a versatile enterprise holding hierarchical and diagonal relationships among its distinctions. Capturing the veiled philosophical and psychological realities in an exploratory fashion, the article thus tries to bring out the real nature of science concealed within the debates of science.
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The author is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Elementary Education in Mata Sundri College for Women, University of Delhi. She has recently completed her Doctoral research with Prof. Krishna Kumar (Ex-Director of NCERT) and Prof. Sadhna Saxena (Retd. Professor, C.I.E, University of Delhi). She is interested in science education and gender studies.
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Tanwar, S. Nature of Science. Reson 25, 1763–1776 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-020-1096-6
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