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Discovery (observation)

Index Discovery (observation)

Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something "old" that had been unrecognized as meaningful. [1]

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Action (philosophy)

In philosophy, an action is something which is done by an agent.

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Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, or the Age of Exploration (approximately from the beginning of the 15th century until the end of the 18th century) is an informal and loosely defined term for the period in European history in which extensive overseas exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture and was the beginning of globalization.

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American Sociological Review

The American Sociological Review is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of sociology.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Bold hypothesis

Bold hypothesis (or "bold conjecture") is a concept in the philosophy of science of Karl Popper, first explained in his debut The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1935) and subsequently elaborated in writings such as Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963).

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Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.

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Creativity techniques

Creativity techniques are methods that encourage creative actions, whether in the arts or sciences.

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Discipline (academia)

An academic discipline or academic field is a branch of knowledge.

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Experiment

An experiment is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis.

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Exploration

Exploration is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of information or resources.

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Heikki Mannila

Heikki Mannila (born 1960) is a Finnish computer scientist, the president of the Academy of Finland.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a professional association with its corporate office in New York City and its operations center in Piscataway, New Jersey.

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Invention

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process.

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Knowledge

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning.

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List of German inventors and discoverers

---- This is a list of German inventors and discoverers.

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List of multiple discoveries

Historians and sociologists have remarked the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery".

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Multiple discovery

The concept of multiple discovery (also known as simultaneous invention) is the hypothesis that most scientific discoveries and inventions are made independently and more or less simultaneously by multiple scientists and inventors.

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Observation

Observation is the active acquisition of information from a primary source.

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Particle physics

Particle physics (also high energy physics) is the branch of physics that studies the nature of the particles that constitute matter and radiation.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Phenomenon

A phenomenon (Greek: φαινόμενον, phainómenon, from the verb phainein, to show, shine, appear, to be manifest or manifest itself, plural phenomena) is any thing which manifests itself.

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Question

A question is a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or the request made using such an expression.

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Randomness

Randomness is the lack of pattern or predictability in events.

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Revelation

In religion and theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity or entities.

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Role of chance in scientific discoveries

The role of chance, or "luck", in science comprises all ways in which unexpected discoveries are made.

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Science

R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.1, Chaps.1,2,&3.

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Scientific evidence

Scientific evidence is evidence which serves to either support or counter a scientific theory or hypothesis.

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Scientific priority

In science, priority is the credit given to the individual or group of individuals who first made the discovery or propose the theory.

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Sense

A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception.

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Serendipity

Serendipity means an unplanned, fortuitous discovery.

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Statistic

A statistic (singular) or sample statistic is a single measure of some attribute of a sample (e.g. its arithmetic mean value).

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Timeline of scientific discoveries

The timeline below shows the date of publication of possible major scientific theories and discoveries, along with the discoverer.

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Tomasz Imieliński

Tomasz Imieliński (born July 11, 1954 in Toruń, Poland) is a Polish-American computer scientist, most known in the areas of data mining, mobile computing, data extraction, and search engine technology.

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Western culture

Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, European civilization,is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(observation)

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