scientific method
| Belief that experimentation and observation, properly understood and applied, can avoid the influence of cultural and social values and so build up a picture of a reality independent of the observer. |
| Techniques and mechanical devices that improve the reliability of measurements may seem to support this theory; but the realization that observations of subatomic particles influence their behaviour has undermined the view that objectivity is possible in science (see uncertainty principle). |
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