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Scientists draw conclusions that go beyond the evidence.

Unanticipated findings give rise to new theories.

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

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

A testable relationship that is less abstract than a theory.

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

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

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

Technical term for the meaning of scientific objectivity.

The study or theory of what constitutes knowledge.

______ impart a sense of understanding to scientific explanations.

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

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