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This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 179. Chapters: Observation, Philosophy of science, Empirical methods, Empirical research, Molyneux's problem, Pragmatism, Verbal Behavior, Existential phenomenology, Observable, Observing, Action theory, Actor-network theory, Anomalous phenomenon, Anti-science, Antireductionism, Biological determinism, Causality, Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography, Commensurability, Confirmation holism, Consensus science, Consilience, Constructive realism, Construct, Deductive-nomological, Demarcation problem, Descriptive science, Determinism, Duhem Quine thesis, Eclecticism, Episteme, Etiology, Exemplar, Experience, Experimental replication, Fallibilism, Folk science, Functionalism, Genetic determinism, Genidentity, Greedy reductionism, Holism, Imre Lakatos, Indeterminacy, Inductionism, Inquiry, Instrumentalism, Logical positivism, Mechanism, Metaphysical naturalism, Naturalism, Normal science, Normative science, Norwood Russell Hanson, Objectivity, Observation, Observational science, Observer bias, Observer effect, Operational definition, Paradigm shift, Phenomenon, Philosophy of social science, Positivism(philosophy), Positivism, Pragmaticism, Pragmatism, Predictive power, Preternatural, Process theory, Program evaluation, Received view of theories, Reductionism, Reductionist, Science of morality, Science studies, Scientific community, Scientific Community Metaphor, Scientific determinism, Scientific pluralism, Scientific realism, Scientific reductionism, Scientific skepticism, Scientism, Semantic view of theories, Sociology of scientific knowledge, Statistical validity, Testability, Theories, The classical observationalist-inductivist account of science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Samuel Kuhn, Two Dogmas of Empiricism, Unity of science, Vienna Circle, Vitalism. Excerpt: Empirical method is generally meant as the collection of a large amount of data on which...