Current Science

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The beginnings of taxonomy in the science of the universe, and its rigorous development, emphasizing the role of certain moments, books and personalities, are the subject of the first section. The second section describes the context of the new century, in which interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity are amply developing, exponentially widening the universe of scientific research, and generating new and original approaches through new sciences and derived disciplines. In the third part, arguing in favour of the need for principled and adaptive rethinking of the classification of sciences, two taxonomy alternatives are presented, which are graphically called 'iterative' and 'symmetrical (or mirror)', both possible alternatives to the current situation.

Keywords

Iterative and Symmetrical, Inter-, Trans- and Multidisciplinarity, Science.
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