The difference between technology and science

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The difference between technology and science
Ian Quallenberg Menkes
Abstract:
This essay deals with the conceptual distinction between science and technology. Two
classical and predominant answers given to such problem are analyzed and criticized.
The idea that there is a gradual difference between science and technology which is
determined by the restrictive connection between the aim and the scope of the
investigation is explained and discussed.
Key words: Science, Technology, epistemology, methodology.
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Iberofórum. Revista de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Iberoamericana.
Año VII, No. 14. Julio-Diciembre de 2012. Dossier.
pp. 228-252. ISSN: 2007-0675.
Universidad Iberoamericana A.C., Ciudad de México. www.uia/iberoforum