"self-science" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1745, John Mason, A Treatise on Self Knowledge, page 5:",
          "text": "It shews us with what exactness and care we are to search and try our spirits, examine ourselves, and watch our ways, and keep our hearts, in order to acquire this important self-science.",
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          "ref": "1852, John G. Manly, Ecclesiography: Or, The Biblical Church Analytically Delineated, page XXI:",
          "text": "Egoistical philosophy is best corrected by sound and thorough self-science; and the depreciation or undue exaltation of the church is best counteracted and cured by exact and comprehensive church-science.",
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          "ref": "1978, A. S. Seetharamu, Philosophies of Education, page 76:",
          "text": "Subjects of the curriculum would include courses in physics, chemistry, mathematics, life sciences and their application, social sciences in an integrated fashion and self-sciences such as literature, biography, philosophy, psychology and art.",
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        "A systematic study of one's own inner world, using methods from science, psychology and self-reflection."
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        "(somewhat dated) A systematic study of one's own inner world, using methods from science, psychology and self-reflection."
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