e/Quasi-empirical method

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has gloss	eng: Quasi-empirical methods are applied in science and in mathematics. The term "empirical methods" refers to experiment, disclosure of apparatus for reproduction of experiments, and other ways in which science is validated by scientists. Empirical methods are studied extensively in the philosophy of science but cannot be used directly in fields whose hypotheses are not invalidated by real experiment (mathematics, theology, ideology). In these fields, the prefix quasi came to denote methods that are "almost" or "socially approximate" an ideal of truly empirical methods.
lexicalization	eng: Quasi-empirical method
instance of	e/Thought experiment