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• Empiricism
  ...[[sensory]] [[experience]]. One of several views of [[epistemology]], the study of human [[knowledge]], along with [[rationalism]], [[idealism]] and [https ...cially as discovered in [[experiments]]. It is a fundamental part of the [[scientific method]] that all [[hypotheses]] and [[theories]] must be tested against [[
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• Zoology
  '''Zoology''' is the branch of [[biology]] concerned with the study of [[animals]]. The most common pronunciation of "zoology" is zoʊˈɑləʤ ...[[embryology]] in its scope and limitation. This study also includes the study of [[human being]]s in the environment which eventually branch off into [[p
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• Hypothesis
  ...ommon and informal usage, a scientific ''hypothesis'' is not the same as a scientific ''[[theory]]''. A Hypothesis is never to be stated as a question, but alway ...of a theory or occasionally may grow to become a theory itself. Normally, scientific hypotheses have the form of a [[mathematical model]]. Sometimes, but not a
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• Phenomenon
  *"[[Scientific theory]] is a contrived foothold in the [[chaos]] of living phenomena." - [ ...phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all." [[Sir William Osler]]
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• Sociology
  ...titutions]], and social [[relationships]]; specifically : the systematic [[study]] of the development, [[structure]], [[interaction]], and [[collective]] [[ *2: the scientific [[analysis]] of a social [[institution]] as a functioning whole and as it r
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• Patience
  ==Scientific perspectives== In a 2005 study involving common marmosets and cottontop tamarins, both species faced a sel
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• Pain
  ...tional_Association_for_the_Study_of_Pain International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)] as "an unpleasant [[sensory]] and [[emotion]]al [[experienc ...which pain is no longer considered a symptom but an illness by itself. The study of pain has in recent years attracted many different fields such as [[pharm
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• Natural Sciences
  ...[nature]] from the [[social sciences]], which use the scientific method to study human behavior and society, and from the [[formal science]]s, such as [[mat ...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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• Method
  "the systematic study of methods that are, can be, or have been applied within a discipline";[1] *"the [[systematic]] study of methods that are, can be, or have been applied within a [[discipline]]";
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• Archaeology
  ...a – ἀρχαῖος, arkhaios, "[[ancient]]"; and -λογία, -logia, "-logy"), is the study of human activity, primarily through the recovery and [[analysis]] of the m ...prehistoric societies, when there are no written records for historians to study, making up over 99% of total human history, from the [https://en.wikipedia.
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• Astrology
  ...rial]] matters. A practitioner of astrology is called an astrologer. The [[scientific]] [[community]] considers astrology a [[pseudoscience]] or [[superstition]] ...entury. Eventually, astronomy distinguished itself as the [[scientific]] [[study]] of astronomical objects and [[phenomena]] without regard to the astrologi
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• Theory
  ...m "theory" in academic [[literature]] or discourse is a [[reference]] to a scientific or empirically-based theory. Even so, since the use of the term theory in scientific or empirical [[inquiry]] is the more common one, it will be discussed first
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• Methodology
  *"the systematic study of methods that are, can be, or have been applied within a discipline";[1] ...ophical assumptions that underlie a particular study [[relative]] to the [[scientific method]]. This is why scholarly [[literature]] often includes a section on
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• Analysis
  * Cryptanalysis, the study of methods for obtaining the meaning of encrypted information * Technical analysis, the study of price action in securities markets in order to forecast future prices
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• Statistics
  German ''Statistik'' [[study]] of [[political]] [[facts]] and figures, from New Latin ''statisticus'' of ...investigated further, the conclusions are tested as well, as part of the [[scientific method]]. Descriptive statistics and analysis of the new data tend to provi
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• Cosmology
  ...ristian Wolff (philosopher)|Christian Wolff]]'s ''Cosmologia Generalis''), study of the Universe has a long history involving [[science]], [[philosophy]], [ ...e as a whole; in other words, in the understanding of the universe through scientific observation and experiment. This discipline, which focuses on the universe
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• Afterlife
  The first type of claims are loosely based on pseudo-scientific observations and conjecture made by humans or instruments (for example a ra ...surable. These experiments are widely considered to have had little if any scientific merit, and although MacDougall's results varied considerably from "21 grams
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• Isaac Newton
  ...e most influential [[scientists]] of all time and as a key figure in the [[scientific revolution]]. His book ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Na ...tion to his work on calculus, as a mathematician Newton contributed to the study of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_series power series], generalised t
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• Humanism
  '''Humanism''' is an approach in [[study]], [[philosophy]], or [[practice]] that [[focuses]] on [[human]] [[values]] ...dia.org/wiki/Positivism positivism]), and the overarching expansion of the scientific project.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism]
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• Conservation
  '''Conservation''' [[biology]] is the [[scientific]] [[study]] of the [[nature]] and [[status]] of [[Earth]]'s [https://en.wikipedia.org ...odiversity biodiversity] [[crisis]] based on [[morals]], [[ethics]], and [[scientific]] [[reason]]. [[Organizations]] and [[citizens]] are responding to the biod
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