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

Technical term for the meaning of scientific objectivity.

Unanticipated findings give rise to new theories.

Scientists draw conclusions that go beyond the evidence.

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

A testable relationship that is less abstract than a theory.

The study or theory of what constitutes knowledge.

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

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

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

______ impart a sense of understanding to scientific explanations.

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

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