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14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

2460	Participation in an experiment requires agreement about what the outcome will mean [Fodor]

2454	We can deliberately cause ourselves to have true thoughts - hence the value of experiments [Fodor]

2455	Interrogation and experiment submit us to having beliefs caused [Fodor]

2461	An experiment is a deliberate version of what informal thinking does all the time [Fodor]

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Not all sciences are experimental; astronomy relies on careful observation [Okasha]

22177

Randomised Control Trials have a treatment and a control group, chosen at random [Okasha]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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The discoverers of Neptune didn't change their theory because of an anomaly [Okasha]

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Science mostly aims at confirming theories, rather than falsifying them [Okasha]