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• Botany
  *3 : a botanical treatise or [[study]]; especially : a particular [[system]] of botany ...nous]] plants, making it one of the oldest [[sciences]]. Today botanists [[study]] over 550,000 [[species]] of living organisms.[https://www.wikipedia.org/w
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• Natural history
  *3 : the [[study]] of [[natural]] objects especially in the field from an amateur or popular ...ology have a strong multi-disciplinary [[nature]] combining scientists and scientific knowledge of many specialty sciences.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural
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• Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
  ...religion] began in earnest a scant century ago. Although precedents for a "scientific attitude" toward [[religion]] may be found at least as far back as the [htt ...the_Social_Scientific_Study_of_Jewry Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry] and Research Committee 22 (sociology of religion) of the [https:/
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• Neurology
  *1: the [[scientific]] [[study]] of the [[nervous system]] especially in respect to its [[structure]], [[f ...[Greek]] νεῦρον, [[neuron]], "nerve" + the suffix -λογία, '-''logia''', "[[study]] of") is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system.
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• Epidemiology
  Late [[Latin]] epidemia + International Scientific Vocabulary -logy ...from the Greek terms epi = upon, among; demos = people, district; logos = study, word, discourse; suggesting that it applies only to human populations. But
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• Linguistics
  ...w words combine into [[phrase]]s and [[sentences]]) and [[phonology]] (the study of sound systems and abstract sound units). [[Phonetics]] is a related bran A variety of [[intellect|intellectual]] disciplines are relevant to the study of language. Although certain linguists have downplayed the relevance of so
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• Psychology
  ...y]] is an [[academic]] and [[applied science|applied]] field involving the study of behavior and mental processes. Psychology also refers to the applicatio ...uropsychology]] combines the study of the actual neural processes with the study of the mental effects they have subjectively produced.
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• Lyceum PF
  ...s exist for the serious [[student]] with an interest in the [[scientific]] study of psychic phenomena, the Parapsychology Foundation has established a varie
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• Laboratory
  ...ty]] for experimentation, [[observation]], or [[practice]] in a field of [[study]] ...cilities where the [[processes]] or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laboratories. These notably include:
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• 2013-06-25-A New Theology
  ...ry to dedicate an equal amount of time to the exploration of new ideas and scientific speculation. ...ledge of the Father is not considered to be a matter that deserves serious study? Traditional religions promote the idea that knowing who the Father is –
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• Fringe
  ...iences. This is because in [[theory]] a fringe science will still maintain scientific rigor, plausibility, and [[integrity]], though it is usually highly dispute ...nately, the objective of some debunkers is debunking, not encouraging real scientific objectivity. For this [[purpose]], disparaging terms are often useful. They
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• Semantics
  *1 : the [[study]] of [[meanings]]: :a : the [[historical]] and [[psychological]] [[study]] and the classification of [[changes]] in the signification of [[words]] o
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• Formal Sciences
  A '''formal science''' is the academic study that is predominantly concerned with abstract [[formal systems]], for insta ...ense a [[science]]. The specialization restricting the meaning to modern ''scientific method'' is of later date.
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• Pathology
  ...whole bodies (autopsies). The term also encompasses the related scientific study of disease processes, called General pathology. ...y pathology is concerned with animal disease whereas Phytopathology is the study of plant diseases.
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• Exploration
  *1 a : to investigate, [[study]], or [[analyze]] : look into <explore the [[relationship]] ...rest of the world, and Major explorations after the Age of Discovery for [[scientific]] exploration in the modern era.
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• Paranormal
  ...lity to explain or [[measure]].[2] Notably, paranormal phenomena also lack scientific [[evidence]], as detectable but not well explained phenomena such as [[dark ...i/National_Science_Foundation National Science Foundation], maintains that scientific evidence does not support paranormal [[beliefs]].[3]
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• Anomaly
  ...s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalistics Anomalistics] is the [[study]] of [[scientific]] anomalies. In [[computer science]], anomaly detection refers to the [[pro
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• Museum
  *1: an [[institution]] devoted to the procurement, [[care]], [[study]], and display of objects of lasting interest or [[value]]; also : a place ...]] exhibits and high-resolution images of their collections for perusal, [[study]], and exploration from any place with [[Internet]] connectivity.
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• Secondary Corpus
  Those academic disciplines which study the [[human condition]]. The study of the Universe integrating [[science]], [[philosophy]], and [[religion]].
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• Planetary Science
  ...ceanography, hydrology, theoretical planetary science, glaciology, and the study of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planets extrasolar planets]. A
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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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• Phenomena
  *"[[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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• Parapsychology
  *1: a field of [[study]] concerned with the [[investigation]] of [[evidence]] for paranormal psych ...930s as a replacement for the term psychical research. Parapsychologists [[study]] a number of ostensibly paranormal [[phenomena]], including [[telepathy]],
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• Observation
  *7. a. The action or an act of observing [[scientific]]ally; esp. the careful watching and noting of an object or [[phenomenon]] ...t to close scrutiny or monitoring, spec. as the object of [[scientific]] [[study]] under experimental or natural conditions. Cf. sense 7a, UNDER prep. 13c.
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• Dictionary
  ...i/Lexicology lexicology] and terminology are two [[different]] fields of [[study]]. In [[theory]], general dictionaries are supposed to be [https://en.wikip ...gual dictionaries), the systematic [[study]] of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest themselves is a 20th century enterprise, called [https://en.wikipe
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• 2017-04-06-The Future of Medicine
  ...of Pathology'''. Pathology is the study of diseases. It is the scientific study of what makes people sick that has culminated with the impressive progress ...cally incorrect word. However, it is what is meant that matters: a serious study and effective action to improve the genetic human stocks on Urantia. That i
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• Topography
  ...e 20th century as generic for topographic surveys and maps. The earliest [[scientific]] surveys in France were called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini ...[[Greek]] τόπος topo-, "place", and γράφω graphia, "[[writing]]") is the [[study]] of [[Earth]]'s [[surface]] shape and features or those of [[planets]], [[
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• Faith
  ...some of their knowledge to so called "[[authorities]]" in a given field of study. This is true because one simply does not have the time or resources to eva ...od is not an objective method removed from man's passion. On the contrary, scientific progress depends primarily on the unique capability of free man to notice a
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• Asexuality
  ...may also be considered a lack of a sexual orientation. One commonly cited study published in 2004 placed the prevalence of asexuality at 1%. ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation sexual orientation] and a field of scientific [[research]], and a growing body of research from both [[sociological]] and
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• Wouter J. Hanegraaff
  ...is also President of the [https://www.esswe.org/ European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism] (ESSWE). ...rn Esotericism” (both Brill), as well as of four collective volumes on the study of religions and the history Western esotericism. He is member of the edito
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• Perspiration
  ..., helps the [[body]] to remove [[toxins]], but the [[belief]] is without [[scientific]] [[support]]. [[Evaporation]] of sweat from the skin [[surface]] has a coo A [[study]] has [[discovered]] that [[men]], on [[average]], start perspiring much mo
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