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- noun A field of specialized study within a broader discipline; a subfield.
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- noun A
field ofstudy orwork that isrelated to oneaspect , but not the whole, of a broader field of study or work.
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Examples
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Maybe your subdiscipline is different, but many methods aren't published anywhere in a form that's worth a jar of warm spit.
Standing Alone in My Methods Candid Engineer 2009
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The professors I met in my subdiscipline were awesome.
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The system also hamstrings younger untenured professors, making them fearful of taking intellectual risks and causing them to write in jargon aimed only at those in their narrow subdiscipline: Thus in economics, people have "utility functions" instead of needs and wants.
Tenure trouble? 2009
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Starting with the simply weird, consider the notion that: "The system also hamstrings younger untenured professors, making them fearful of taking intellectual risks and causing them to write in jargon aimed only at those in their narrow subdiscipline: Thus in economics, people have" utility functions "instead of needs and wants."
Tenure trouble? 2009
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Does Francis really think that only people in a narrow subdiscipline can understand the concept of a utility function?
Tenure trouble? 2009
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Nowadays the application of chemistry to solve biological problems is a very fashionable subdiscipline dubbed "chemical biology", but in 1980 the only venue for such interdisciplinary efforts was in the pharmaceutical industry.
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I also accidentally took a look at the subdiscipline statistics, which always depress me.
Jobs « Gerry Canavan 2008
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However, a subdiscipline of analytic philosophy known as philosophy of language of which Jerry Fodor is a leading exponent continued to regard evolution as somehow either irrelevant or too messy to contribute to philosophy, leading to some rather absurd claims by a few, like your Oslo professor.
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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However, a subdiscipline of analytic philosophy known as philosophy of language of which Jerry Fodor is a leading exponent continued to regard evolution as somehow either irrelevant or too messy to contribute to philosophy, leading to some rather absurd claims by a few, like your Oslo professor.
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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There is a mathematical underpinning that you must first acquire, mastery of each mathematical subdiscipline leading you to the threshold of the next.
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