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• Natural Sciences
  ...c method]] to study [[nature]] from the [[social sciences]], which use the scientific method to study human behavior and society, and from the [[formal science]] ...ds of biology. By contrast, [[soft science]] is often used to describe the scientific fields that are more reliant on qualitiative research, including the social
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• Dictionary
  ...exicology] and terminology are two [[different]] fields of [[study]]. In [[theory]], general dictionaries are supposed to be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S ...iption_and_description prescriptive or descriptive], the latter being in [[theory]] largely based on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_corpus linguis
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• Conservation
  ...edings that resulted sought to bridge a gap existing at the time between [[theory]] in [[ecology]] and [[population]] [[biology]] on the one hand and conserv ...odiversity biodiversity] [[crisis]] based on [[morals]], [[ethics]], and [[scientific]] [[reason]]. [[Organizations]] and [[citizens]] are responding to the biod
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• Prism
  ..._Fresnel Fresnel] combined Newton's particle [[theory]] with Huygen's wave theory to show that color is the visible [[manifestation]] of [[light]]'s [[wavele ...introduced during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_revolution scientific revolution]. The results of this [[experiment]] dramatically [[transformed]
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• Symmetry
  ...rgo, as well as to more abstract entities such as mathematical structures, scientific [[law]]s, and [[symbol]]ic and conceptual systems, including [[myth]]ology ...mogeneity and isotropy). By that time, [[Albert Einstein]]'s (1879–1955) [[Theory of Relativity]] had engendered the notion of relativistic invariance, the k
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• Prediction
  ...hod]] is built on testing assertions which are [[logic]]al consequences of scientific theories. This is done through repeatable [[experiment]]s or observational ...ckly and easily confirmed or falsified (see predictive [[power]]). In many scientific fields, desirable theories are those which predict a large number of events
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• Sociology
  *2: the scientific [[analysis]] of a social [[institution]] as a functioning whole and as it r ...ple in general. It is a social science involving the application of social theory and [[research]] methods to the study of the [[social]] [[life|live]]s of [
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• Fecundity
  ...phy of science], fecundity refers to the [[ability]] of a [[scientific]] [[theory]] to open new lines of theoretical [[inquiry]].
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• Dark Matter
  ...se alternatives, however, has garnered equally widespread support in the [[scientific]] [[community]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_gravity]
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• 2020-04-11-About Spiritual Apps
  ...ientific experiments, the outcome validates or invalidates the fundamental theory. The researcher has to go back to his test tubes and revisit his calculatio
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• Behavior
  ...ing" (see under [[Ivan Pavlov]] led to the rise of Operant Conditioning, a theory advocated by [[B.F. Skinner]], which took over the academic establishment u
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• Computer Science
  ...allenges in implementing computations. For example, [[programming language theory]] studies approaches to describing computations, while [[computer programmi * [[Scientific computing]] enabled advanced study of the mind and mapping the human genome
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• Spiritual Evolution
  ...pedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics cybernetic] principles. A more "[[mainstream]]" scientific presentation of this same [[idea]] is provided by [https://en.wikipedia.org ==Integral theory==
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• Holism
  *1: a [[theory]] that the [[universe]] and especially living [[nature]] is correctly seen ...used as a catchword. This contributed to the resistance encountered by the scientific interpretation of holism, which insists that there are [https://en.wikipedi
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• Mind Control
  ...Sociological_Association American Sociological Association] have found any scientific merit in such [[theories]].
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• Fantasy
  ...ence fiction]] and horror by the [[expectation]] that it steers clear of [[scientific]] and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap ...eval studies). [[Work]] in this area ranges widely, from the structuralist theory of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzvetan_Todorov Tzvetan Todorov], which e
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• Objectivity
  ==The scientific virtues== ...he truth-conducive tools of [[thought]] used by objective thinkers are the scientific [[virtue]]s. When formulating a hypothesis to explain a particular fact, ma
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• Process philosophy
  ...not essential. This classical ontology is what made [[knowledge]] and a [[theory]] of knowledge possible, as it was thought that a science of something in [ ...g]]" and the "physics of [[becoming]]". Process philosophy covers not just scientific [[intuitions]] and [[experiences]], but can be used as a conceptual bridge
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• Spectrum
  ...e Goethe] in his ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours_(book) Theory of Colors]'' and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer Schopen ...[rainbow]] of [[colors]] in visible light when separated using a prism. As scientific understanding of light advanced, it came to apply to the entire [https://en
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• Thunder
  ...r theories have been proposed. By the mid-19th century, the [[accepted]] [[theory]] was that lightning produced a [[vacuum]]. In the 20th century a [[consens
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