scientific method

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scientific method (uncountable) (generally referred to in the definite, as the scientific method)

1. (sciences) A method of discovering knowledge about the natural world based in making falsifiable predictions (hypotheses), testing them empirically, and developing peer-reviewed theories that best explain the known data.

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• 1858 - George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears - Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

  Mr. Payne's paper aimed at the introduction of a scientific method founded upon rational principles which were altogether unknown to the mass

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• scientific methodology

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empirical falsifiability hypothesis

method Occam’s razor historical method