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Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. ^[e]
Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation ^[e]

Abduction [r]: Add brief definition or description
Confirmation [r]: Add brief definition or description
Demarcation problem [r]: Add brief definition or description
Experimental science [r]: Add brief definition or description
Falsificationism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Laws of nature [r]: Add brief definition or description
Occam's razor [r]: Other things being equal—when several theories explain the same facts equally well, it is rational to prefer the most parsimonious of the theories. ^[e]
Problem of Induction [r]: Add brief definition or description
Reductionism [r]: The attempt to replace high-level explanations of phenomena by more basic explanations, often in terms of interacting subsystems or parts. ^[e]
Scientific explanation [r]: Add brief definition or description
Scientific method [r]: The concept of systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. ^[e]
Scientific realism [r]: Philosophical position that posits that the entities proposed by science are real (as opposed to an epistemic abstraction). ^[e]
Theoretical science [r]: Add brief definition or description
Verificationism [r]: Principles and criteria for meaningfulness that requires a non-analytic, meaningful sentence to be empirically verifiable. ^[e]

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