Claus‐Christian Carbon

From a one-dimensional hierarchy to a multidimensional space of scientific english: the relationship between a discipline’s place in the hierarchy of the sciences and its use of grammatical structures

Abstract The idea of a Hierarchy of the Sciences (HoS), first proposed by Auguste Comte in the 19th Century, argues that scientific disciplines can be ordered in a hierarchy of complexity, with the inorganic sciences (Astronomy, Physics) being the least complex and the organic sc...