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 ====Empiricism====
-|  What it is  | The idea that all knowledge comes from experience -- the senses.   |
+|  What it is  | The idea that all knowledge comes from experience -- the senses. \\ In AI it also means that this experience comes from the physical world, through physical sensors.    |
 |  Why it matters  | Before the emphasis on empirical knowledge, science did not have a chance to rise in any obvious way above "other sources of knowledge," including old scriptures, intuition, religious beliefs, or information produced by oracles.  |
 |  Empiricism & Science  | The fundamental source of information in (empirical, i.e. experimental) science is experience, which eventually became the formalized **comparative experiment**.   |
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 ====Controlled Experiment====
-| What is it?   | A fairly recent research method, historically speaking, for testing hypotheses / theories  |
+|  What is it?   | A fairly recent research method, historically speaking, for testing hypotheses / theories  |
 |  When  | When it is possible to control and select everything of importance to the subject of study  |
 |  How  | Select subjects freely, randomize samples, remove experimenter effect through double-blind procedure, use control groups, select independent and dependent variables as necessary to answer the questions raised.  |