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noun

methodology

CEFR C2

the branch of philosophy that analyzes the principles and procedures of inquiry in a particular discipline

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Six example sentences with methodology, each labelled with its topic.

  • A course in methodology asks what makes evidence count, long before any student runs a single experiment.

    Philosophy

  • Debates in methodology decide whether a discipline treats a controlled trial or a long field study as stronger proof.

    Science

  • Her seminar on methodology spends a whole term on why replication failures tell us how the field asks questions.

    Psychology

  • Debates in economic methodology ask whether a model must describe real people or merely predict what markets do.

    Economics

  • Courses in historical methodology examine what counts as evidence and how a diary should be weighed against a tax roll.

    History

  • Medical methodology asks why a randomized trial outranks a physician's long experience when the two disagree.

    Medicine

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