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Sources — Indicative Readings

The method

The indicative reading follows the method called mânâ-yı harfî (reading a thing like a letter that points beyond itself) in the Risale-i Nur of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, in particular two passages: one asks each science what the universe is (medicine sees a vast pharmacy, chemistry a laboratory; the Fifth Proof of Belief), the other holds that every science rests on a higher reality (the Twentieth Word, second station). The texts of this dataset are the project's own; they contain no quotations and are not presented as anyone's words.

The classification of fields

The English field names are the official ones; the Turkish names are the project's translation. 78 detailed fields are covered. Not covered: the residual codes (not further defined, not elsewhere classified, inter-disciplinary), Basic programmes and qualifications (a programme level, not a field) and Religion and theology (its own sources are carried elsewhere in the project, and a reading that does not name what that field studies would misrepresent it).

References (2015)

Each work was verified before release: 1968 using Crossref metadata (title and year) and 47 official texts or repository items using the expected wording on their official page; verification_method and verified_on in data/references.jsonl give the method and date. The works are cited, not reproduced.