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Methods and Tools

It is tempting to think that all the disciplines of the natural sciences use roughly speaking the same kinds of methods, but the ToK student may be surprised by the variety of approaches that are used. Nonetheless we may distinguish some basic patterns. There are experimental procedures, observational methods involving careful measurements, construction of more or less sophisticated models, running of computer...

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