scientific enterprise
collocation in Englishmeaningsofscientificandenterprise
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scientific
adjective
uk/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/us/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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enterprise
noun
uk/ˈen.tə.praɪz/us/ˈen.t̬ɚ.praɪz/
an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will ...
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(Definition ofscientificandenterprisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofscientific enterprise
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Commitment to thescientificenterpriserequires that we not accept claims about constraint, exaptation, or spandrel in the absence of evidence.
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Indeed, the lack of disagreement carries over to meta-level debate about the purpose and workings of thescientificenterprise.
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It seems to us that this does not apply to thescientificenterprisein general.
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From a handful of scientific consultants and then the heads of struggling forestry administrations, thescientificenterprisehad by the late 1940s enlarged considerably.
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It was also a challenge to the methodological and epistemological principles on which the entire internationalist naturalscientificenterprisewas based.
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There are very few fields which offer so important and rich a harvest toscientificenterprise.
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Efforts to legitimate thescientificenterpriseled many seventeenth-century scientists to focus on practical problems and to justify their work in such terms.
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Unpredictability is in the nature of thescientificenterprise.
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Moreover, this exploration of agent motivation generally continues within thescientificenterprise.
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It requires a very special talent to engender both hard work and enjoyment in thescientificenterprise.
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On the other were the skeptics who sometimes openly disparaged science and at other times more cautiously expressed reservations about thescientificenterprise.
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Some of these lectures dealt with the nature of thescientificenterpriseas a whole.
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Compared with the general lectures on thescientificenterprise, however, the passages on the benefit and the merits of science are brief.
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However, they do not interconnect as theoretical elements or actual fruits of a unified program to set thescientificenterpriseupon a new epistemological footing.
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They underline the social aspects and institutions ofscientificenterprise, including language.
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The image of science it presents is certainly not an enticement to join in thescientificenterprise.
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Or, if there are limits to thescientificenterprise, the idea is that science, at least, sets the boundaries for what we humans can ever achieve or know about reality.
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New historiographies in the history of science have emphasized the importance of viewing thescientificenterpriseas a cultural one.
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Their careers and reputations hang on the success of thescientificenterprise, as do the commercial opportunities of the international companies responsible for developing scientific knowledge into marketable products.
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