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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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