scientific discipline
collocation in Englishmeaningsofscientificanddiscipline
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scientific
adjective
uk/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/us/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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discipline
noun
uk/ˈdɪs.ə.plɪn/us/ˈdɪs.ə.plɪn/
training that makes people more willing to obey or more able to control themselves, often in the form of rules, and punishments if these are broken, or the behaviour produced by ...
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(Definition ofscientificanddisciplinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Ascientificdisciplineconsists not only of amassing facts and explaining them in theories.
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As the authors' note, at present the field lacks the cumulative character of a seriousscientificdiscipline, and that is where the trouble lies.
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I managed to graduate without suspecting the existence of ascientificdisciplineof economics.
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These experiments form a landmark in shaping thescientificdisciplineof economic entomology.
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I deplore adversary procedures in the healthy evolution of ascientificdiscipline.
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We may distinguish, broadly speaking, two sorts of questions concerning everyscientificdiscipline.
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It seems helpful to begin by asking what really constitutes the cognitive identity of ascientificdiscipline.
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At the same time, this epistemic and technical work on the phylloxera formed an important step in shaping thescientificdisciplineof economic entomology.
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Many were torn between theirscientificdisciplineand its historical study, earning their money as scientists and dedicating their spare time to serious historical study.
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The unity of ascientificdisciplineis only got sight of in the writing of a textbook.
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All things considered, what strikes me in this discussion, is that archaeology as ascientificdiscipline, professional practice, and research and analytical process, seems virtually absent.
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It would have been interesting: not in order to assist in the composition of music, but as research in thescientificdisciplineof the psychology of perception and pattern-recognition.
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Academic psychology in the 1890s, however, tended to move away from such grand issues, being more concerned to define itself as a rigorouslyscientificdiscipline.
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Positivist geography of the 1960s tried to establish itself as a respectablescientificdisciplineexactly on this point.
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As the choice of words indicate, he had already managed to emancipate the art of experiment from a mere artisanal endeavor toscientificdisciplinein its own right.
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Ascientificdisciplinecould, in other words, for a long period of time continue to exist only latently until someone resumed a discontinued line of tradition.
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The infusion of knowledge from a technological pursuit into ascientificdisciplinewas even more apparent in the 1885 dissertation than it was in earlier studies.
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It is sometimes asked whether culture and society are a major concern for psychologists or, put another way, whether thescientificdisciplineof psychology is by nature international.
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