experimental science
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experimental
adjective
uk/ɪkˌsper.ɪˈmen.təl/us/ɪkˌsper.əˈmen.t̬əl/
using new methods, ideas, substances, etc. that have not been tried before, usually in order to find out what effect ...
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science
noun
uk/ˈsaɪ.əns/us/ˈsaɪ.əns/
(knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of theories to describe the results of ...
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It is clear that they are not the same as those for classicalexperimentalscience.
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He linked these tendencies both to the rise of capitalism and the growth ofexperimentalscience.
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Both are tasks inexperimentalscience: get rid of bad hypotheses and of bad data.
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For this formulation to be useful inexperimentalscience, measurable variables must be identified.
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Closures are then said to depend upon the activity ofexperimentalscience.
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The postulation of closure conditions thus could be seen as analogous to an acknowledgement of the activity ofexperimentalscience.
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He was particularly impressed by the evidence of cultural attitudes conducive to the emergence ofexperimentalscience.
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Successfulexperimentalsciencerequires that experiments meet certain general logical and empirical conditions such as repeatability under controlled conditions.
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Conversely, as in the case of goodexperimentalscience, causal information can be learned with interventional data.
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He tried to design his new musical scale and instruments on the basis ofexperimentalscienceand mathematics.
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In contrast, recent studies of experiments have tried to define boundaries to the importance of highlevel theory inexperimentalscience.
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Economics is hardly anexperimentalscienceand does not depend on the mediation of a laboratory apparatus.
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The methodology ofexperimentalsciencerequires the examination of facts, the observation of their relationships, and finally the formation of laws.
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The partial failure (a success ofexperimentalscienceand art, anyway) is often explained with the poverty of the technology available at the time.
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But he soon recognized that music was also a natural phenomenon and had to be investigated by means ofexperimentalscience.
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The third level has to do with the contribution ofexperimentalscienceto improve and develop medications, which brings us into the modern era.
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Beyond foraging 271 analysis of it to be therefore not anexperimentalsciencein search of law, but an interpretive one in search of meaning.
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He was just getting started, was a fountain of ideas, a powerhouse of energy, and had unsurpassed technique and mastery ofexperimentalscience.
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But the practice of postulating closure conditions, not unlike an acknowledgement of the activity ofexperimentalscience, could be seen as a dilemma for the empiricist.
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Other commentators seem to wish to assert a primacy ofexperimentalscienceover natural observation by using a definition which depends on the results of experimental studies of transmission processes.
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My naive first reaction to the thought ofexperimentalsciencein space was that, since the gravitational acceleration there would be zero, the physics would be simpler, possibly even boring.
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Politics is an observational, not anexperimentalscience.
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It is anexperimentalsciencewhere often one has to learn by one's mistakes in order to find the right thing to do.
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He was thus able to throw himself into the spirit of modernexperimentalscience.
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At the same time he acquired a taste forexperimentalscience.
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