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• Supersede
  ==Superseded scientific theories== ...oscientific or [[fringe]] science theories with limited [[support]] in the scientific community, nor does it describe theories that were never widely [[accepted]
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• Pseudoscience
  ...odology, lacks supporting [[evidence]] or plausibility, or otherwise lacks scientific [[status]]. The term comes from the [[Greek]] prefix pseudo- (false or pret ...osophy_of_science philosophers of science] and among commentators in the [[scientific]] [[community]] about whether there is a reliable objective way to distingu
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• Credibility
  ...://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credibility#cite_note-4 Prominence-Interpretation Theory].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credibility] ...edia.org/wiki/Peer_review peer review] and then publication as part of the scientific literature. Other approaches include the [[collaborative]] assessment of a
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• Naturalism
  ...r object has a supernatural significance; specifically : the doctrine that scientific laws are adequate to account for all phenomena ...literature; specifically : a theory or practice in literature emphasizing scientific observation of life without idealization and often including elements of de
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• Hypothesis
  ...mal usage, a scientific ''hypothesis'' is not the same as a scientific ''[[theory]]''. A Hypothesis is never to be stated as a question, but always as a stat ...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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• NTIS (National Technical Information Service) Reports
  ...and Government Printing Office Depository Access to Reports, Technical and Scientific (DARTS) pilot. ...(7%), Natural Resources and Earth Sciences (6%), Computers and Information Theory (5%), Behavior and Society (7%), includes psychology, education, law and s
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• Empiricism
  ...[[practice]] founded on [[experience]] without the aid of [[science]] or [[theory]] *3: a [[theory]] that all [[knowledge]] originates in [[experience]]
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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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• Oxford Companion to Western Art
  ...methodologies, focused on patronage, taste, theory, and criticism, and the scientific examination of [[material]]s and techniques. Critical appreciation and [[fa
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• Theory
  The term '''theory''' has two broad sets of [[meanings]], one used in the empirical [[The Scie ...ure]] or discourse is a [[reference]] to a scientific or empirically-based theory.
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• Unit
  ...to the [[scientific method]]. A standard system of units facilitates this. Scientific systems of units are a refinement of the [[concept]] of weights and measure ...ied in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometrics psychometrics] and the theory of conjoint measurement.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_measurement
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• Big Bang
  ...hat marked the beginning of [[the universe]] according to the ''big bang'' theory ...escribes the early [[development]] of [[the Universe]]. According to the [[theory]], the Big Bang occurred approximately [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planc
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• Systems
  ...ngaged in the study of the general properties of systems include [[systems theory]], systems science, systemics and systems engineering. They investigate the # Kenneth D. Bailey (1994). Sociology and the New Systems Theory: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis. New York: State of New York Press.
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• Prescience
  ...] as other than a purely [[psychological]] process by the [[mainstream]] [[scientific]] community because no replicable [[demonstration]], "on demand", has ever Scientific [[investigation]] of extrasensory perception (ESP) is [[complicated]] by th
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• Formal Sciences
  ...ics]], and the theoretical branches of [[computer science]], [[information theory]], and [[statistics]]. ...ense a [[science]]. The specialization restricting the meaning to modern ''scientific method'' is of later date.
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• Zero point energy
  ...nd the Higgs field. It is the energy of the vacuum, which in quantum field theory is defined not as empty space but as the ground state of the fields. In cos ...rgy-based power generation systems are considered [[pseudoscience]] by the scientific community at large and [[skeptics]] usually dismiss efforts to harness zero
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• Science of Spirit
  ...in_Laszlo Ervin Laszlo]'s 2004 Science and the Akashic Field - an Integral Theory of Everything. ...in Water. These theories do not, however, have the support of the general scientific community and are typically considered [[pseudoscience]] views.
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• Realism
  :b : a [[theory]] that objects of sense [[perception]] or [[cognition]] exist independently *3: the [[theory]] or practice of [[fidelity]] in [[art]] and [[literature]] to [[nature]] o
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• Compatible
  ...time]], the [[idea]] of interpersonal compatibility is [[analyzed]] in non-scientific fields (see e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_compatibility ...dia.org/wiki/Antoni_K%C4%99pi%C5%84ski Antoni Kępiński]. However, socionic theory is somewhat [[controversial]] because of a lack of experimental data (altho
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• Linguistics
  '''Linguistics''' is the [[scientific method|scientific]] study of [[language]], encompassing a number of sub-fields. An important ...language]] and the biological constraints on this acquisition. Generative theory is [[Language module|modularist]] in character. While this remains the domi
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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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• 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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