RTL - Three circles

In the above Venn diagram, there are three circles corresponding to reality, thought and language.

The science of language is called "linguistics". But there are names neither for the science of reality nor for the science of thought ... Is this because these are too wide or fuzzy "fields" ?

Reality is studied in physics, biology, chemistry, scociology, anthropology ... and also linguistics (if we consider that language is part of reality). One can consider that any science is the study of a "part" of reality, even if sometimes it is not clear which part it deals with. It would be better to talk about an "aspect" of reality. There is no general science of reality. Study/understanding of reality involved both thought and language.

We think about everything and we think all the time. However there is no general science of thought, only the study of some aspects of it, as in logic (cf. La logique ou l'art de penser by Arnaud and Nicole, or The laws of thought by George Boole), in philosophy (cf. What is called thinking? by Martin Heidegger) or in psychology.

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