enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Scientific method - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

    The history of scientific method considers changes in the methodology of scientific inquiry, not the history of science itself. The development of rules for scientific reasoning has not been straightforward; scientific method has been the subject of intense and recurring debate throughout the history of science, and eminent natural philosophers and scientists have argued for the primacy of ...

  3. Outline of scientific method - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_scientific_method

    Scientific method – body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge, as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge. It is based on observable , empirical , reproducible , measurable evidence , and subject to the laws of reasoning .

  4. Methodology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodology

    The dominant methodology in the natural sciences is called the scientific method. It includes steps like observation and the formulation of a hypothesis. Further steps are to test the hypothesis using an experiment, to compare the measurements to the expected results, and to publish the findings.

  5. Category:Scientific method - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scientific_method

    A scientific method is a sequence or collection of processes that are considered characteristic of scientific investigation and the acquisition of new scientific ...

  6. Outline of science - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_science

    Further steps include peer review and enabling others to reproduce or falsify the observations and/or conclusions; Deductive-nomological model; Scientific modelling – Models of scientific method Hypothetico-deductive model – proposed description of scientific method. According to it, scientific inquiry proceeds by formulating a hypothesis ...

  7. Models of scientific inquiry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Models_of_scientific_inquiry

    One way of describing scientific method would then contain these steps as a minimum: Make a set of observations regarding the phenomenon being studied. Form a hypothesis that might explain the observations. (This may involve inductive and/or abductive reasoning.) Identify the implications and outcomes that must follow, if the hypothesis is to ...

  8. Research - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research

    See Scientific method. A simple example of a non-empirical task is the prototyping of a new drug using a differentiated application of existing knowledge; another is the development of a business process in the form of a flow chart and texts where all the ingredients are from established knowledge.

  9. Science - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

    Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. [1] [2] Modern science is typically divided into two or three major branches: [3] the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; and the behavioural sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology ...