Sentences with phrase «change theory argues»

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He argues that this theory allows one to make all the points that can be made about theological changes through history by using Robinson s notion of «trajectories,» but without its postulation of some «essence» of meaning that perdures through the change.

He argues that today's scientists stubbornly persist in refusing to admit that they need to change their methods and theories (pp. 29, 61, 80, 107, 122).

Deneen, to the contrary, argues that social contract theory radically changed the founders» conception of natural law — the «common good,» for example, was no longer an objective human good knowable to reason, but merely a collection of personal preferences.

Decision theory has long struggled with the problem that people are inconsistent (see «The logic of inconsistency»), but Kacelnik argues that apparent inconsistencies in choice can arise simply because our preferences change according to our needs.

The segmentation theory of events, on which the published study is based, argues that the brain acts on the grounds of constant predictions based on previous experience; When these predictions fail, for example because there is an unexpected change of context, the brain interprets this moment as a boundary event, which delimits the neural coding of the lived experiences.

Institutional theories take a different view, arguing that schools (like other major social service sectors) are so constrained by public expectations that they have limited options for becoming very different.137 Public agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come easily.

G&T managed to get their work out there; publishing it in Nature or Science would not have changed the fact that they're arguments just don't hold any water (they didn't do any new science, they just took what was already known, and then tried to use that to argue against what is already known — a search for logical inconsistency, which might have been worthwhile if they'd known what they were doing and if they'd gone after contrarian «theory»)-- unless it were edited, removing all the errors and non-sequitors, after which it would be no different than a physics book such as the kind a climate scientist would use...

Dickinson argues that political polarisation and angry denial found around climate change is consistent with this «terror management theory».

It's a bit of a stretch to argue that this mysterious change in climate just happened to come along exactly when theory predicted AGW would start to kick in.

Although many of the theories of catastrophic geological change were argued on fully scientific grounds, by the end of the nineteenth century scientists had come to lump all such theories with religious dogmatism.

It would seem to me that if you want to argue that «skeptics» are, as a group, less influenced by identity and emotion in their reasoning about climate change than «realists,» you should be able to design some kind of mechanistic hypothesis for why that is the case, come up with some experiment methodology for collecting and analyzing data that would support your theory, and then collect the data and write it up.

Scientists model the formation of the Antarctic ice sheet and argue that the textbook theory of climate change caused by continental rearrangement did not cause the glaciation 34 - million - years ago, but rather a steep reduction in CO2 levels caused climate patterns to shift.