Scientific Method
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Science is a process that has evolved in order to determine the “how” of things in the natural world. Whereas philosophy speculates on the “why” and “how” of things, science questions only the “how”. Yet, the scientific approach to discovering knowledge about the natural world is a rigorous, methodical one. Science is systematic and exact and knowledge is uncovered through observation, study and experimentation, one “concerned with establishing and systematizing facts, principles, and methods, as by experiments and hypotheses” (Neufeldt 1202). An example of a science would be mathematics. Other disciplines such as biology, chemistry and physics are also sciences more than for any other reason because they adopt the scientific method as a way of discovering knowledge. The scientific method involves concepts such as objectivity, reliability, validity and replication of findings. The method outlines the “question-and-answer
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