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  2. Carper's fundamental ways of knowing - Wikipedia

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    In healthcare, Carper's fundamental ways of knowing is a typology that attempts to classify the different sources from which knowledge and beliefs in professional practice (originally specifically nursing) can be or have been derived. It was proposed by Barbara A. Carper, a professor at the College of Nursing at Texas Woman's University, in 1978.

  3. Empirical knowledge - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 26 March 2014, at 05:21 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  4. Emic and etic - Wikipedia

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    As explained below, the term "emic" originated from the specific linguistic term "phonemic", from phoneme, which is a language-specific way of abstracting speech sounds. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] An 'emic' account is a description of behavior or a belief in terms meaningful (consciously or unconsciously) to the actor; that is, an emic account comes from a ...

  5. Miller-Keane Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing ...

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    The latest edition is the seventh, which lists over 40,000 terms and was published in 2005. [2] The book has been reviewed by publications including the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, [3] Gastroenterology Nursing, [4] Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, [5] Hospitals & Health Networks, [6] and Hospital Topics. [7]

  6. A priori and a posteriori - Wikipedia

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    [ii] A posteriori knowledge depends on empirical evidence. Examples include most fields of science and aspects of personal knowledge. The terms originate from the analytic methods found in Organon, a collection of works by Aristotle. Prior analytics (a priori) is about deductive logic, which comes from definitions and first principles.

  7. Innatism - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of mind, innatism is the view that the mind is born with already-formed ideas, knowledge, and beliefs. The opposing doctrine, that the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) at birth and all knowledge is gained from experience and the senses, is called empiricism.

  8. Empirical research - Wikipedia

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    In scientific use, the term empirical refers to the gathering of data using only evidence that is observable by the senses or in some cases using calibrated scientific instruments. What early philosophers described as empiricist and empirical research have in common is the dependence on observable data to formulate and test theories and come to ...

  9. Empirical (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Empirical may refer to: Epistemic topics. Empiricism, a theory of knowledge as coming only or primarily from experience; Empirical evidence, a source of knowledge acquired by means of observation or experimentation; Empirical research, a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience