Understanding scientific methodology in the historical and experimental sciences via language analysis

Science and Education

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 985-1004

  Dodick, Jeff ^a   Argamon, Shlomo ^b   Chase, Paul ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Computational linguistics; Experimental science; Historical science; Language; Scientific method; Scientific reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449125774     PISSN: 09267220     EISSN: 15731901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11191-008-9146-6     Document Type: Article

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