scientific method

[ sahy-uhn-tif-ik meth-uhd ]

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noun

Often the scientific method. the method of discovery used by scientists from the Enlightenment onward, in which a question is identified, data are gathered through observation and research, a hypothesis is formulated and then tested through experimentation, and the results are analyzed to draw a conclusion: usually followed, in the scientific community, by sharing the results so that others can attempt to replicate and confirm them independently.
any process followed systematically to arrive at knowledge of the universe, especially in premodern times:
In developing his systematic reflection, Thomas Aquinas followed Aristotle's scientific method as far as possible.

scientific method

a method of investigation in which a problem is first identified and observations, experiments, or other relevant data are then used to construct or test hypotheses that purport to solve it

scientific method

An orderly technique of investigation that is supposed to account for scientific progress. The method consists of the following steps: (1) Careful observations of nature. (2) Deduction of natural laws . (3) Formation of hypotheses — generalizations of those laws to previously unobserved phenomena. (4) Experimental or observational testing of the validity of the predictions thus made. Actually, scientific discoveries rarely occur in this idealized, wholly rational, and orderly fashion.

First recorded in 1850–55

As Ackerman pointed out, all scientists are skeptics; skeptical doubt is a part of the scientific method.

While none have passed (yet), these types of legislation seriously hinder the integrity of the scientific method.

The scientific method cannot establish truths; it can only falsify hypotheses.

Adhering to the scientific method, we ran through all the standard positions one at a time: missionary, doggy style, girl on top.

In brief, Dowds scientific method is nothing more than unscientific humbug.

At no time since the days of S. Thomas was the saint's scientific method more lacking.

Scientific method in the work of Hipparchus meant a very different thing from the scientific method of the Chaldeans.

We very well know how, as a matter of fact, those very conditions do interfere with the application of scientific method to-day.

The very first canon of scientific method is that it be appropriate to the matter in hand.

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