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A way knowing or understanding the world that relies on what we experience through our senses.

Scientists draw conclusions that go beyond the evidence.

Scientific inquiry consists of the constant interplay between ______ and data.

Unanticipated findings give rise to new theories.

Scientists use this when they show how hypotheses follow logically from theory.

Adherents believe that human action has distinctive qualities that make the social sciences and natural sciences fundamentally different.

The building blocks of scientific theory that describe the phenomena of interest.

Procedures that eliminate sources of variation that may obfuscate study results.

______ impart a sense of understanding to scientific explanations.

Technical term for the meaning of scientific objectivity.

A testable relationship that is less abstract than a theory.

The study or theory of what constitutes knowledge.

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