branch of knowledge
Example Sentences
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Bioethics evolves, as does any other branch of knowledge.
From Nature ● Oct. 28, 2019
The reason is that science, unlike, say, politics or religion, is a cumulative branch of knowledge.
From Scientific American ● May 14, 2015
Although the title "has come to be equated with medical practitioner," he continues, "by ancient definition, 'doctor' means one sufficiently skilled in any branch of knowledge to teach it."
From Time Magazine Archive
President Lowell, on the eve of his retirement, apparently has determined that his successor shall not have the props pulled from under that branch of knowledge.
From Time Magazine Archive
With others it is a branch of knowledge; with us it is the primary business of life,—the name of the province of speculation to which we confine ourselves.*
From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by Holyoake, George Jacob
