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The suffix is -logy actually. There are a lot of words referring to sciences and faculties ending in -logy (Sociology, Criminology, Endocrinology, Palaeontology, Ecology, Meteorology, Astrology, Archaeology) because Logos (ΛΟΓΟΣ) is the Greek root-word standing for: RATIO and RATIONALISM. Just because all the sciences have to deal with realism and rationalism, therefore...

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