Difference between revisions of "Experimental science"

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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
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-}}</ref>
-== References ==
-{{Reflist}}
-==See also==
-*[[Empirical science]]
-*[[Historical science]]
-*[[Operation science]]
-*[[Origin science]]
-*[[Paleoscience]]
-[[category:science]]
-[[category:scientific disciplines]]
-[[category:Methodology of Science]]

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