a scientific method (principle)
1Scientific method — …
2History of scientific method — The history of scientific method is inseparable from the history of science itself. The development and elaboration of rules for scientific reasoning and investigation has not been straightforward; scientific method has been the subject of… …
3Scientific consensus — is the collective judgement, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of science at a particular time. Scientific consensus is not, by itself, a scientific argument, and is not part of the scientific method;… …
4Scientific evidence — is evidence which serves to either support or counter a scientific theory or hypothesis Fact|date=October 2007. Such evidence is expected to be empirical and properly documented in accordance with scientific method such as is applicable to the… …
5Scientific Revolution — The period which many historians of science call the Scientific Revolution can be roughly dated as having begun in 1543, the year in which Nicolaus Copernicus published his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly… …
6Scientific revolution — This article is about a period in the history of science. For the process of scientific progress via revolution, proposed by Thomas Kuhn, see Paradigm shift …
7Principle (disambiguation) — The term law is often used to refer to universal principles that describe the fundamental nature of something, to universal properties and relationships between things, or to descriptions that purport to explain these principles and relationships …
8Scientific community — The scientific community consists of the total body of scientists, its relationships and interactions. It is normally divided into sub communities each working on a particular field within science. Objectivity is expected to be achieved by the… …
9method — The mode or manner or orderly sequence of events of a process or procedure. SEE ALSO: fixative, operation, procedure, stain, technique. [G. methodos; fr. meta, after, + hodos, way] Abell Kendall m. a …
10principle — [prin′sə pəl] n. [ME, altered < MFr principe < L principium: see PRINCIPIUM] 1. the ultimate source, origin, or cause of something 2. a natural or original tendency, faculty, or endowment 3. a fundamental truth, law, doctrine, or motivating …
