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Experimental science (view source)
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'''Experimental science''' is science based on [[experiment|experimental research]] that plays the role of testing [[hypothesis]], typically in controlled laboratory settings. The hypothesis investigated in classical experimental science postulate regularities among event-types. These regularities may be statistical, as in quantum mechanics, and they may or may not be causal. Experimental scientist are interested in testing functional regularities (e.g. the Boyle-Charles's law for ideal gases), as well as causal regularities.
A test condition C is inferred from the hypothesis and a prediction is made about what should happen if C is realized. This forms the basis for a series of controlled experiments.<ref name="Cleland">{{Cite journal
| author=Cleland, C.E.
| title=Methodological and Epistemic Differences between Historical Science and Experimental Science
| journal=Philosophy of Science
| volume=69
| month=September | year=2002 |page=480, 495 | pages=474–496
| format=PDF
| url=http://spot.colorado.edu/~cleland/articles/Cleland.PS.Pdf
| accessdate = 25.1.2012
|quote=
}}</ref>
== References ==
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==See also==
*[[Empirical science]]
*[[Historical science]]
*[[Operation science]]
*[[Origin science]]
*[[Paleoscience]]
[[category:science]]
[[category:scientific disciplines]]
[[category:Methodology of Science]]