Talk:Wissenschaft

Scope of the word “Wissenschaft”
Wissenschaft includes other studies apart from science as well! For example theology, art, medicine, philosophy, mathematics, informatics, jurisprudence, technology, philology, psychology, agricultural science, communication science, and even economics. The current state of the article restricts the word to science. That's incorrect. – Hokanomono ✉ 10:15, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Merge with science?
I think this article is an unneccessary content fork. Wissenschaft simply means science, and the German article de:Wissenschaft is linked to the Wikidata item for science. - Soulkeeper (talk) 00:31, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Wissenschaft is definitely not the same as science and there is a discussion on Wikidata about it. Wissenschaft is the sum of science, humanities, and philosophy. Still I don't know what to do about this article. --Hokanomono ✉ 12:17, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I found this article very interesting and clearyfying, and confirms why I have found 'science' to be a to narrow concept in English, since I am a Norwegian interdisciplinary scholar brougth up with the word 'vitenskap' which obviously comes from the German 'Wissenschaft'. I also confirms the statement about using non-English words because lack of a good translation for the German 'Bildung', and thus using 'Bildung' in stead of 'formation' which seems to be the closest word, though not with identical meaning, it seems.  Ses (talk) 09:58, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Odd source
"The difficulties of being precise about knowledge are one reason why English is not considered well-suited for discussions about epistemology, and terms from other languages, notably Latin and German, are commonly used."

This addition is both tendentious and gratuitous. The paper taken as grounding this claim seems to me an odd choice for a source on "wissenschaft" in general given that the word is mentioned a mere three times and only incidentally to the main point of the paper (which is more or less that of the out-of-place quote above). Deebly Goncerned (talk) 13:09, 8 July 2024 (UTC)