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• Empiricism
  ...iscovered in [[experiments]]. It is a fundamental part of the [[scientific method]] that all [[hypotheses]] and [[theories]] must be tested against [[observa ...s]] that are testable by [[observation]] and [[experiment]]. The term semi-empirical is sometimes used to describe [[theoretical]] methods that make use of basi
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• Formal Sciences
  ...ience]]. The specialization restricting the meaning to modern ''scientific method'' is of later date. ...ucted by rules of deduction from [[axioms]] and [[definition]] without any empirical study, they refuse to classify formal science as a branch of science.
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• Scientism
  ...applicability of the [[scientific method]] and approach, and the view that empirical science constitutes the most [[authoritative]] [[worldview]] or most valuab ...ope of scientific [[inquiry]], and in contexts where there is insufficient empirical [[evidence]] to justify a scientific [[conclusion]]. It includes an excessi
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• Skepticism
  ..., or subjectivity of moral values, (d) the limitations of knowledge, (e) a method of intellectual caution and suspended judgment. ...tics''', often without regard to whether it is philosophical skepticism or empirical skepticism that they profess.
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• Faith
  ...this line of reasoning, and assuming that children have finite or limited empirical knowledge at birth, it follows that faith is the fundamental basis of all k ...the outset. Polanyi argued that the scientific method is not an objective method removed from man's passion. On the contrary, scientific progress depends pr
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• Isaac Newton
  ...s, and developed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_method Newton's method] for approximating the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_of_a_function ro
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• Statistics
  ...hematics concerned with collecting and interpreting data. Because of its [[empirical]] roots and its focus on [[applications]], statistics is typically consider ...d further, the conclusions are tested as well, as part of the [[scientific method]]. Descriptive statistics and analysis of the new data tend to provide more
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• Research
  ...tters of our world and the [[universe]]. Research can use the [[scientific method]], but need not do so. '''Scientific research''' relies on the application of the [[scientific method]], a harnessing of curiosity. This research provides [[science|scientific]]
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• Experiment
  ...lar types of problems. The experiment is a cornerstone in the [[empiricism|empirical]] approach to acquiring deeper [[knowledge]] about the world and is used in An experiment is defined, in science, as a method of investigating less known fields, solving practical problems and proving
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• The Sciences
  ...[knowledge]]' is a system of acquiring knowledge based on the [[scientific method]], as well as the organized body of [[knowledge]] gained through such [[res These groupings are [[empirical]] sciences, which means the knowledge must be based on [[observable]] [[phe
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• Science
  ...knowledge]]') is a system of acquiring knowledge based on the [[scientific method]], as well as the organized body of [[knowledge]] gained through such [[res These groupings are [[empirical]] sciences, which means the knowledge must be based on [[observable]] [[phe
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• Integrity
  ...able interaction are also significant factors due to their congruence with empirical observation. A value system may evolve over [[time]] while retaining integr # objectively, via the [[scientific method]] or via a standardized mathematical measure
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• Intuition
  ...wledge of the pure forms of the intuition - that is, intuition that is not empirical (''Prolegomena, p.7''). Intuitistic logic was devised by Arend Heyting to a ...porary [[analytic philosophy]], appeals to our intuitions are an important method for testing claims. A characteristic example is the post-Gettier literature
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• Measure
  ...established that there is a correlation between measurements of height and empirical relations, it is not a measurement according to additive conjoint measureme ...an initial guess as to the value of a quantity, and then, using various [[method]]s and instruments, reduces the uncertainty in the [[value]]. Note that in
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• Anti-gravity
  ==Empirical claims and commercial efforts== # METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A SECONDARY GRAVITATIONAL FORCE FIELD
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• 1999-08-27-What You Believe
  ...method of achieving truth which does not follow the strict [[scientific]], empirical approach is considered out of court, is automatically ruled out as having n
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• Probability
  ...obability, which, in contrast, is used as a [[measure]] of the weight of [[empirical]] [[evidence]], and is arrived at from [[inductive reasoning]] and [[statis The method of least squares is due to Adrien-Marie Legendre (1805), who introduced it
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• 2006-08-14-The Puzzle of Discovering New Values
  We’ve had some lessons on the nature of empirical method as a kind of perceptual discipline that certain cultures of the human race ...an apogee of materialistic thinking, of individuals so enamored with this method that they tended to disregard as some kind of squishy or nebulous reality w
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• Cognitive Science
  ...theorizing and [[Computer Science|computational]] modeling, their primary method is [[experiment]]ation with human participants. People, usually undergradua ...ning, building, and experimenting with computational models is the central method of artificial intelligence (AI), the branch of computer science concerned w
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• 2006-01-23-Hallmark Of Wisdom
  Being born in a relatively modern age where the empirical method of demonstrating natural law has been in effect for many centuries now, you It was during the heyday of this empirical method in the latter part of last century, and the early part of the twentieth cen
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• 2005-01-23-Limits of Empiricism & Materialism
  Being born in a relatively modern age where the empirical method of demonstrating natural law has been in effect for many centuries now, you It was during the heyday of this empirical method in the latter part of last century, and the early part of the twentieth cen
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• Worldview
  ...hat are governed with generative systems and rationalistic in [[scientific method]]. ...ty of entities inaccessible to natural science. They view the [[scientific method]] as the most reliable model for building an [[understanding]] of the world
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• Oral Tradition
  ...fers both to a [[Scientific method|method]] and the objects studied by the method. ...work of Parry and Lord reduced the prominence of the [[historic-geographic method]] in [[folkloristics]].
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• Mind maps
  ...niform graphic formulation of the semantic structure of information on the method of gathering [[knowledge]], may aid recall of existing [[memory|memories]]. ...k: Penguin</ref> claims that the mind map is a vastly superior note taking method because it does not lead to the alleged "semi-hypnotic trance" state induce
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• Value theory
  ...eiver-type value is 'market value', or 'willingness to pay', the principal method of accounting used in neo-classical economics. In contrast both, Marx's Lab His empirical approach had absolute intrinsic value denial, not accepting intrinsic value
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• Metaphysics of Creativity: Nature, Art, and Freedom In German Philosophy After Kant
  ...er is that since all our knowledge of the world comes to us in the form of empirical intuitions, or representations of phenomenal reality, which are apprehended ...orld of appearances and as such all things in general would fall under the empirical laws of nature—‘the mechanism of nature in determining causality’—
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• Metaphysics
  ...rsed so that scientists generally consider metaphysics antithetical to the empirical sciences. ...claims of change or of non-Being are illogical. Because he introduced the method of basing claims about [[pheonomena|appearances]] on a [[logic]]al concept
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• Scientific Method
  ...integrating previous knowledge. It is based on gathering [[observable]], [[empirical]] and [[Measure (mathematics)|measurable]] [[evidence]] subject to specific [https://www.m-w.com/dictionary/scientific%20method scientific method], ''[[Merriam-Webster|Merriam-Webster Dictionary]]''.
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• Multiverse
  ...e [[WMAP cold spot#Parallel universe|WMAP cold spot]] may provide testable empirical evidence for a parallel universe within the multiverse. According to [[Max ...[[Falsifiability|unfalsifiable]]; outside the methodology of [[Scientific method|scientific investigation]] to confirm or disprove.
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• Logic
  ...rmal" proper reasoning can be captured by logic, if one can find the right method for translating ordinary language into that logic. Philosophical logic is e ===Is logic empirical?===
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• Algorithm
  ...or calculation and [[data]] processing. It is formally a type of effective method in which a list of well-defined instructions for completing a task will, wh ...tempts to define "effective calculability" (Kleene 1943:274) or "effective method" (Rosser 1939:225); those formalizations included the Gödel-Herbrand-Kleen
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• Relativity
  ...[[structure]] for geometrical figures were studied by purely geometrical [[method]]s. For two millennia, the study of Euclidean geometry made no use of coord The easiest [[method]], albeit a bit roundabout, is by means of coordinates. Here we will take t
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• Social Sciences
  ...humanity, including [[quantitative method|quantitative]] and [[qualitative method|qualitative]] methods. ...ed largely on measurable quantities, employing both theoretical models and empirical analysis. Quantitative models, however, can be traced as far back as the [[
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• 2012-01-19-Self-power and Other-power
  ...alist believes that “seeing is believing”--your whole empirical scientific method is based on this ability to work up an experiment and see what happens. Tha
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• 2010-12-06-Michael
  ...all the classified knowledge you call science, derived from the scientific method.
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• Social Status
  ...ber]] distinguishes status from [[social class]], though some contemporary empirical sociologists add the two ideas to create [[Socioeconomic status]] or SES, u ...is inherited through family. Monarchy is a widely-recognized use of this method, to keep the rulers in one family. This usually occurs at birth without an
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• Discourse
  ...ific statements and their effects; and linguistics, aiming primarily at an empirical analysis of texts. Gee, James Paul, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, London/New York 1999
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• Intelligence
  ...or]]". ''g'' can be derived as the principal factor using the mathematical method of [[factor analysis]]. However, psychometricians can also measure a wide r In a recent review of the empirical research, David Geary found that ''g'' is highly correlated with many impor
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• Open Source Community
  ...p/home/contribution.asp?wasp], El-Emam, K (2001). Ethics and Open Source. Empirical Software Engineering 6(4).] ...raw unedited footage rather than programming code. It can also refer to a method of filmmaking where the process of creation is 'open' i.e. a disparate grou
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• 2014-08-10-Try TR'ing Yourself
  ...and response, that we actually have meaning and value. For this is not an empirical project, my dear ones. This is not chemistry or physics which can be demons ...d forth the creative part of you, not to express yourselves in some cliché method, but springing brand new right from your own personality and creative spiri
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• Brainwashing
  ...t first many of these critics advocated or engaged in deprogramming as a [[method]] to liberate group members from apparent "brainwashing". However the [[pra ...coercive persuasion" and suggested that brainwashing theories were without empirical [[proof]].[25] Afterward the APA filed a motion to withdraw its signature f
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• Intention
  ...tury [[philosophy]] by [[Franz Brentano]] in his work ''Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint''. Brentano defined intentionality as one characteristic of "me ...nd Med. a. An aim or purpose in a [[healing]] process; hence, a plan or method of treatment. [med.L. curationis intentio, transl. {oasper} {tau}{ghfrown}{
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• Psychoanalysis
  # a method of investigation of the mind; # a method of treatment of [[Psychology|psychological]] or [[emotion]]al illness. (A G
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• 2008-02-11-Stages of Individualization
  ...ilingly repeated over and over again across the centuries. This scientific method literally created in human consciousness a separation between the material
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• 2008-07-21-Spirit Energy Field
  One method we have suggested is with an indiscriminate, wholehearted projection of lov ...fact each moment is also equally new, singular, and cannot be subjected to empirical demonstration in its complexity of not only the uniform impersonal, but als
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• Creativity
  ...omebody discards preconceived assumptions and decides on a new approach or method that might seem to others unthinkable. ...as four stages, with "intimation" seen as a sub-stage. There has been some empirical research looking at whether, as the concept of "incubation" in Wallas' mode
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• 2012-03-16-The Flurry 4
  ...>Christ Michael: Being born in a relatively modern age where the empirical method of demonstrating <blockquote>It was during the heyday of this empirical method in the latter part of last century,
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• Information science
  ...thods include the journal [[Impact Factor]], a relatively crude but useful method of estimating the impact of the research published within a journal, in com ...cribe a pragmatic approach to [[user interface design]] which emphasizes [[empirical]] methods and operational definitions of [[User requirements document|user
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• 2007-03-05-Bogus Cultural Attitudes
  ...ture. One of the benefits of your recently developed scientific, empirical method and the energy/material world it has segregated and brought into focus, is
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• Humanity
  ...ic]], [[critical]], or [[speculative]], as distinguished from the mainly [[empirical]] approaches of the [[natural science|natural]] and [[social sciences]]. C ...g" of a large variety of works, while still, in many cases, relying on the method of close reading.
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