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• Applied science
  ...pplied science''' is a [[discipline]] of [[science]] that applies existing scientific [[knowledge]] to develop more [[practical]] [[applications]], such as [[tec ...can also apply formal science, such as [[statistics]] and [[probability]] theory, as in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology epidemiology]. [https://
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• Plate Tectonics
  ...r [[celestial]] objects when they are sufficiently similar to Earth. The [[theory]] builds on the older [[concepts]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contin
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• Statistics
  ...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 ...hich it is often grouped. The [[difference]] is, roughly, that probability theory starts from the given [[parameters]] of a total population to deduce probab
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• Archaeology
  ...ipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoastronomy archaeoastronomy], and numerous different scientific techniques have been developed to aid archaeological investigation. Nonethe ..."scientific" and "anthropological", with [[hypothesis]] testing and the [[scientific method]] very important parts of what became known as processual archaeolog
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• Survival of the fittest
  ...ginated in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_theory evolutionary theory] as an alternative (but less [[accurate]]) way of describing the [[mechanis ...nctioned cut-throat economic [[competition]]" and led to the advent of the theory of "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism social Darwinism]" whic
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• Secondary Corpus
  [[Knowledge]] of 'observable' [[phenomena]] based on the [[scientific method]]. The scientific study of matter at the [[atom]]ic and [[molecule|molecular]] scale
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• Fact
  ...fundamental questions regarding the nature, methods, scope and validity of scientific reasoning. ...an objective and verifiable observation; in contrast with a conjecture or theory, which is intended to explain or interpret facts.
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• Pseudo-science
  ...3][4] lacks supporting [[evidence]] or plausibility,[5] or otherwise lacks scientific [[status]].[6] The term comes from the Greek prefix pseudo- (false or prete ...ilosophy_of_science philosophers of science] and among commentators in the scientific [[community]] about whether there is a reliable [[objective]] way to distin
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• Law of Attraction
  ...the Law's claims are impossible, violating [[scientific]] principles and a scientific [[understanding]] of the [[universe]]. [3] Others have questioned the references to modern scientific theory, and have maintained, for example, that the Law of Attraction misrepresents
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• Theorems
  ...ted]] or proposed as a demonstrable [[truth]] often as a part of a general theory : proposition <the theorem that the best defense is offense> ...ndamentally [[deductive]], in [[contrast]] to the notion of a scientific [[theory]], which is [[empirical]].
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• Higgs boson
  ...s which would allow physicists to [[confirm]] this cornerstone of modern [[theory]].
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• Cosmology
  ...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 ...s. In particular, the [[geocentric]] [[Ptolemaic system]] was the accepted theory to explain the motion of the heavens until [[Nicolaus Copernicus]], and sub
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• Self-preservation
  ...until later, we find it foreshadowed as early as 1895 in "A Project for a Scientific Psychology" ([[Freud]], 1950a), in which [[Freud]] accords major importance ...sition]]-[[complementarity]] nevertheless plays an important role in the [[theory]] that the [[sexual]] [[instincts]] are connected to the self-preservation
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• Descend
  ...re is strong [[quantitative]] [[support]], by a [[formal]] test" for the [[theory]] that all living [[organisms]] on [[Earth]] are descended from a common an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin Charles Darwin] proposed the [[theory]] of universal common descent through an [[evolutionary]] [[process]] in [h
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• Degeneration
  ...arwin Charles Darwin]'s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Evolution Theory of Evolution]. [[Evolution]] meant that [[mankind]]'s [[development]] was n ...r circumstances might change and suit a more adapted species. Degeneration theory presented a pessimistic outlook for the [[future]] of [https://en.wikipedia
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• Aristotle
  ...irically-minded than Plato or Socrates and is famous for rejecting Plato’s theory of forms. Aristotle’s emphasis on good reasoning combined with his [[belief]] in the [[scientific method]] forms the backdrop for most of his work. For example, in his work
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• Research
  ...ientific matters of our world and the [[universe]]. Research can use the [[scientific method]], but need not do so. ...ble organisations and by [[private]] [[groups]], including many companies. Scientific research can be subdivided into different classifications according to thei
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• Probability
  ...thematics]] the [[concept]] has been given an exact meaning in probability theory, that is used extensively in such areas of study as mathematics, [[statisti The scientific [[study]] of probability is a modern [[development]]. Gambling shows that t
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• Phenomenon
  *"[[Scientific theory]] is a contrived foothold in the [[chaos]] of living phenomena." - [[Wilhel
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• Evidence
  The theory of evidence is a field wrought with dispute. Many of these disputes stem fr ...he natural world, or which are created as [[experiment]]s in a laboratory. Scientific evidence usually goes towards supporting or rejecting a [[hypothesis]].
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