Science
- Normalization (sociology) or social normalization, the process through which ideas and actions are made to appear culturally "normal"
- Normalization model, used in visual neuroscience
- Normalisable wave function in quantum mechanics
- Numéraire, which pertains when only relative prices matter
- Normalization Process Theory, which explains the processes by which innovations become routinely incorporated in their social contexts
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“My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat—a boat which, to revert to Neurath’s figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.”
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