scientific methodn.

Brit.

/ˌsʌɪənˌtɪfɪk ˈmɛθəd/, U.S.

/ˌsaɪənˌtɪfɪk ˈmɛθəd/

Forms: see scientific adj. and n. and method n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: scientific adj., method n.

Etymology: < scientific adj. + method n. Compare slightly earlier scientifical method n.

A method of observation or procedure based on scientific ideas or methods; spec. an empirical method that has underlain the development of natural science since the 17th cent.The scientific method is now commonly represented as ideally comprising some or all of (a) systematic observation, measurement, and experimentation, (b) induction and the formulation of hypotheses, (c) the making of deductions from the hypotheses, (d) the experimental testing of the deductions, and (if necessary) (e) the modification of the hypotheses; though there are great differences in practice in the way the scientific method is employed in different disciplines (e.g. palaeontology relies on induction more than does chemistry, because past events cannot be repeated experimentally). The modern scientific method is often seen as deriving ultimately from Francis Bacon's Novum Organum (1620) and the work of Descartes. In the 20th cent. Karl Popper's idea of empirical falsification has been important (cf. Popperian adj.).

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1672 J. Gregory Great & New Art Weighing Vanity 7 All these things he here mentioneth, and thousands more, can be done by sure and Scientifick Methods, and therefore are perfected in so far as they are a Science.

1734 G. Berkeley Analyst 76 Whether Men may properly be said to proceed in a scientific Method without clearly conceiving the Object they are conversant about, the End proposed, and the Method by which it is pursued?

1740 T. Short Ess. Hist. Princ. Mineral Waters i. 73 Mr. Mckaile Surgeon wrote a Treatise on this Water..without any Tryal, he is a meer Adept, and totally a stranger to the Scientific Method.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (new ed.) III. 173 A scientific method, that dissipating with its earliest rays the gnomes of hypothesis and the mists of theory, may [etc.].

1854 T. H. Huxley Educ. Value of Nat. Hist. Sci. 13 The man of business must as much avail himself of the scientific method..as the veriest bookworm.

1871 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 2nd Ser. 485 Neither history, nor any other knowledge, could be obtained except by scientific methods.

1889 ‘L. Carroll’ Sylvie & Bruno xviii. 255 That, I believe, is the true Scientific Method.

1908 W. McDougall Introd. Social Psychol. i. 4 When..the modern principles of scientific method began to be generally accepted.

1927 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation iii. 83 There was a great outcry when scientific method was applied, in the form of the so-called ‘Higher Criticism’.

1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Oct. 295/1 Scientists possess a technique which they call the scientific method of thought.

1959 L. W. H. Hull Hist. & Philos. Sci. vii. 194 The subtle blend of observation, hypothesis, mathematics and planned experiment in the Scientific Method is a more effective procedure than that of Bacon.

2009 New Yorker 27 Apr. 28/2 Mishurovsky uses the scientific method to research bell acoustics, a field fraught with mystifications.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scientific method
释义	scientific methodn. Brit. /ˌsʌɪənˌtɪfɪk ˈmɛθəd/, U.S. /ˌsaɪənˌtɪfɪk ˈmɛθəd/ Forms: see scientific adj. and n. and method n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: scientific adj., method n. Etymology: < scientific adj. + method n. Compare slightly earlier scientifical method n. A method of observation or procedure based on scientific ideas or methods; spec. an empirical method that has underlain the development of natural science since the 17th cent.The scientific method is now commonly represented as ideally comprising some or all of (a) systematic observation, measurement, and experimentation, (b) induction and the formulation of hypotheses, (c) the making of deductions from the hypotheses, (d) the experimental testing of the deductions, and (if necessary) (e) the modification of the hypotheses; though there are great differences in practice in the way the scientific method is employed in different disciplines (e.g. palaeontology relies on induction more than does chemistry, because past events cannot be repeated experimentally). The modern scientific method is often seen as deriving ultimately from Francis Bacon's Novum Organum (1620) and the work of Descartes. In the 20th cent. Karl Popper's idea of empirical falsification has been important (cf. Popperian adj.). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > experiments > [noun] > scientific method scientifical method1661 scientific method1672 1672 J. Gregory Great & New Art Weighing Vanity 7 All these things he here mentioneth, and thousands more, can be done by sure and Scientifick Methods, and therefore are perfected in so far as they are a Science. 1734 G. Berkeley Analyst 76 Whether Men may properly be said to proceed in a scientific Method without clearly conceiving the Object they are conversant about, the End proposed, and the Method by which it is pursued? 1740 T. Short Ess. Hist. Princ. Mineral Waters i. 73 Mr. Mckaile Surgeon wrote a Treatise on this Water..without any Tryal, he is a meer Adept, and totally a stranger to the Scientific Method. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (new ed.) III. 173 A scientific method, that dissipating with its earliest rays the gnomes of hypothesis and the mists of theory, may [etc.]. 1854 T. H. Huxley Educ. Value of Nat. Hist. Sci. 13 The man of business must as much avail himself of the scientific method..as the veriest bookworm. 1871 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 2nd Ser. 485 Neither history, nor any other knowledge, could be obtained except by scientific methods. 1889 ‘L. Carroll’ Sylvie & Bruno xviii. 255 That, I believe, is the true Scientific Method. 1908 W. McDougall Introd. Social Psychol. i. 4 When..the modern principles of scientific method began to be generally accepted. 1927 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation iii. 83 There was a great outcry when scientific method was applied, in the form of the so-called ‘Higher Criticism’. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Oct. 295/1 Scientists possess a technique which they call the scientific method of thought. 1959 L. W. H. Hull Hist. & Philos. Sci. vii. 194 The subtle blend of observation, hypothesis, mathematics and planned experiment in the Scientific Method is a more effective procedure than that of Bacon. 2009 New Yorker 27 Apr. 28/2 Mishurovsky uses the scientific method to research bell acoustics, a field fraught with mystifications. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1672
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