Complete Definition of "scientific method"

English

Noun
scientific method (generally referred to in the definite, as the scientific method)
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  1. science 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.

Quotations
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

Translations
trans-top|method of discovering knowledge
Czech: v�decká metoda f
trans-mid
trans-bottom

See also
top2
empirical
falisifiability
hypothesis
mid2
method
Occam's razor|Occam�s razor

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