Noun

(en noun)

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.

(sciences) A set of actions and observations, performed to verify or falsify a hypothesis or to research a causal relationship between phenomena.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Robert M. Pringle , title=How to Be Manipulative , volume=100, issue=1, page=31 , magazine= citation , passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation . Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}

Noun

(en-noun)

An experimental practice or tendency, especially in the arts

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 13, author=Allan Kozinn, title=Beethoven’s Adventures: A Narrative and Context, work=New York Times citation

, passage=By playing up the lushness of Webern’s “Langsamer Satz” and the experimentalism of Beethoven’s “Serioso” Quartet, for example, they created the impression that Beethoven was the more adventurous composer. }}

(philosophy) An empirical or pragmatic approach which emphasizes the importance of experimentation

*{{quote-journal, 2007, date=August 8, S. Matthew Liao, A defense of intuitions, Philosophical Studies, url=, doi=10.1007/s11098-007-9140-x, volume=140, issue=2, pages=

, passage=Finally, I argued that moderate experimentalism and IAE can help resolve these different kinds of conflicts. }}