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philosophy itself, what sorts of questions it should ask, how it might pose and answer them, and what it can achieve in doing so. It is considered by some to be a topic prior and preparatory to philosophy, while others see it as inherently a part of philosophy, or automatically a part of philosophy
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of 295 papers published in ten well-known medical journals. It found that, "in almost 73% of the reports read ... conclusions were drawn when the justification for these conclusions was invalid". Meta-research during the ensuing decades found many methodological flaws, inefficiencies, and bad
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that is a theory in itself. Analyses or descriptions of an existing theory would be considered meta-theories. If the subject matter of a theoretical statement consists of one or multiple theories, it would also be called a meta-theory. For
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Recent Trends in Theoretical Psychology: Proceedings of the Second Biannual Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, April 20–25, 1987, Banff, Alberta, Canada
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is defined as: "a statement about theorems. It usually gives a criterion for getting a new theorem from an old one, either by changing its objects according to a rule" known as the
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Pashler, Harold; Wagenmakers, Eric Jan (2012). "Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Replicability in Psychological Science: A Crisis of Confidence?".
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to be unattainable. Nevertheless, his program of unsolved mathematical problems influenced mathematics for the rest of the 20th century.
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and systems that are used to express truths. The basic objects of metalogical study are formal languages, formal systems, and their
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that combines social theories with analysis of the effect of socio-historical contexts in sociological intellectual production.
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itself. Metascience is an attempt to increase the quality of scientific research while reducing wasted activity; it uses
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The study of metatheory became widespread during the 20th century after its application to various topics, including
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inquiry into the nature, purposes, and methods of the activity that makes these kinds of inquiries, by asking what
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The philosophy of philosophy is automatically part of philosophy, just as the philosophy of anything else is...
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Barile, Margherita. "Metatheorem." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource, created by Eric W. Weisstein.
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Measures have been implemented to address the issues revealed by metascience. These measures include the
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in scientific literature, and to increase the overall quality and efficiency of the scientific process.
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Ioannidis, John P. A.; Fanelli, Daniele; Dunne, Debbie Drake; Goodman, Steven N. (2015-10-02).
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practices in the research of numerous scientific topics. Many scientific studies could not be
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that issue guidelines for methods and reporting. There are continuing efforts to reduce the
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is an attempt to use scientific knowledge to improve the practice of science itself.
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What is Metatheory? An easy explanation with example of Self determination theory
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Baker, W. J.; Mos, Leendert P.; Rappard, Hans V.; Stam, Henderikus J. (2012).
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Metatheory and Interviewing: Harm Reduction and Motorcycle Safety in Practice
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A major criticism of metatheory is that it is theory based on other theory.
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Introduced in 20th-century philosophy as a result of the work of the
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This article is about theories about theories. For the concept in
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Metaphilosophy is "the investigation of the nature of
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is done or can be improved. It has been described as "
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Lazerowitz, M. (1970). "A note on "metaphilosophy"".
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while others adopt some combination of these views.
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Index

Meta-theory
logic
Metatheorem
theory
subject matter
mathematics
mathematical logic
philosophy of science
metascience
scientific linguistics
metalanguage
Metascience
scientific method
science
research methods
research
John Ioannidis
statistical methods
reproduced
medicine
soft sciences
replication crisis
pre-registration
clinical trials
CONSORT
EQUATOR Network
misuse of statistics
perverse incentives
peer review
bias

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