Sentences with phrase «about human attributes»

The IBI scale is based on implicit beliefs about human attributes, specifically intelligence, and assesses whether one believes that intelligence is a trait - like fixed attribute that can not be changed (i.e., entity theory), or is malleable and can be improved (i.e., incremental theory).

Indeed, the limited assumptions Locke made about human attributes gave his work significant longevity and influence politically.

Not exact matches

Because we don't know anything about the laws of anything prior to this universe, we don't know about the attributes of any possible being (higher than human being or not) that may have existed before.

Skinner declares: «As we learn more about the effects of the environment we have less reason to attribute any part of human behavior to an autonomous controlling agent.»

Also, when you know more about religion, it just doesn't make any sense to attribute to a divine being what is clearly created by humans... just try explaining to someone who believes the Bible is the literal word of god about the council of Nicaea.

Idealism recognizes the presence of evil in history, but it makes a distinction between nature and reason and attributes evil to the body.16 Idealism is complacent about the perils of the freedom of the human spirit, convinced that spirit and rationality are identical and that rationality controls freedom.

How were the firstborns to die — tangible murder, or a disease brought about by poor birthing conditions engineered by the medical community of the time, or by a pulse from the Anananunki planet that could be attributed to a weak, ineffectual god assigned to this sector of the universe and passed off as omnipotent because He thought he was, or knew he had to pretend to be, to give humans Any Hope AT ALL?

[i] Univocal [/ i] language about God assumes that when we make a statement about God, e.g., «God is wise,» the attribute «wise» means the same thing when applied to God as when applied to the «creature» (in this case, human beings).

The foreword of the present book includes a 1965 letter from Ramsey to Fletcher: «[T] he candid issue between us is whether agape is expressed in acts only or in rules also, which question is generally begged; or else the structures in which human beings live are attributed to other than uniquely Christian sources of understanding (natural law, etc.) while Christians go about pretending to live in a world without principles.

Analogous to this are also feelings, consciousness, and intentions, which the child initially attributes to all beings and eventually limits to animals and humans; typically, as the previous statements about passivity and self - movement indicate, feelings, consciousness, and intentions are explicitly taken away from «things.»

I can go on and on about the attributes of other living species acting the same way humans do, so why do people believe they haven't a soul?

Some people's feelings about the chickens that lay their eggs are based more on attributing human characteristics to chickens than on sound knowledge of chicken psychology.

While more than 95 percent of the world's climate scientists attribute global warming to human causes, only about half of U.S. adults agree.

But new research suggests that ravens — birds singled out by many cultures as a symbol of intelligence and wisdom — share at least some of the human ability to think abstractly about other minds, adapting their behavior by attributing their own perceptions to others.

The focus of the debate on CO2 is not wholly predicated on its attribution to past forcing (since concern about CO2 emissions was raised long before human - caused climate change had been clearly detected, let alone attributed), but on its potential for causing large future growth in forcings.

However, to apply this argument directly and attribute (and quantify) the impacts from Harvey itself to human - induced climate change, neglects that climate change is not just about warming.

Existing theories about human intelligence have attributed this to our communal lifestyles: the fact that we live and hunt in groups, our need to communicate through language.

On a deeper level, detached from the actual experience of watching the film, it's not unfair to question whether attributing human qualities to whales creates a myth about them that obscures their true nature.

One of those images has become an icon, both for what it reveals about human technological capabilities and the extraordinary attributes of our home planet.

Anyone who give due credit to the attributes of how humans reason, particularly someone who is knowledgeable about neuroscience, would recognize that determinations of who has «integrity» are inherently biased.

Greenhouse gases can be attributed to about 0.9 °C of this warming, but it has been partially offset by about 0.3 °C cooling from human aerosol emissions.

Motivated reasoning comes about because of attributes in human cognition and psychology.

Even though human CO2 emissions rose from 6 GtC / yr to 10 GtC / yr during that span, the GHE radiative forcing attributed to CO2 for 1992 - 2014 was about 0 W m - 2.

Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar, NASA's associate administrator for earth science, said Aqua's data, combined with information gathered by the other satellites that are part of the agency's Earth Observing System, would help resolve scientific conflicts about global warming and how much of it could be attributed to human activity.

Of course it is worth knowing that 97 % of research papers and / or their authors attribute global warming to humans but as the video says, it's the science behind it that counts, and just because the papers are peer reviewed in itself proves nothing about whether the scientific proposal / theory is necessarily right.

When we talk about climate change, we're talking about the scientifically observable — and increasingly severe — changes in global climate patterns that became apparent in the mid-to-late twentieth century and can be attributed to the rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, in particular) produced by human activities like burning fossil fuels.

She then argues that this can't be attributed to human - caused global warming, which presumably implies something about the current rise in ocean heat content.

/ blockquote > See my comment about finding that the sky is blue and attributing it to magic pixie dust: That the sky is blue or that the vast majority of papers (even by critics) affirm the basic message that «the Earth is warming, and humans are playing a role in that warming» are not novel results.

The report is framed around communicating about climate change effectively — but read more closely and you'll quickly see that the reason we need help here to begin with is that humans have some pesky attributes, ones that render us pretty poor at grappling with slow - moving, long - range, collective problems like climate change.

Finally, if only 50 % of warming were due to human activities, future warming will be about half of the warming projected elsewhere in this report, so attributing more than 50 % of warming to humans doesn't by itself demonstrate a need for emissions reductions.

Now, new research in Nature Climate Change [1] not only reinforces the reality of this trend — which is already provoking debate about the overall climate consequences of a warming Arctic — but statistically attributes it to human causes, which largely means greenhouse gas emissions (albeit with a mix of other elements as well)

He said about half of the increase in «fuel aridity» — a measure of the dryness of forests that indicates higher fire risk — can be attributed to human activity.

On the question of whether observed changes in climate can be attributed to human activities such as burning fossil fuels, Bolin noted that «The global mean temperature has increased by 0.3 - 0.6 degrees C since the late 19th century, and about 0.3 degrees over the last 40 years.»

Regarding the substance of the comment attributed to Mr. Wirth, namely that scientific questions about climate change have been resolved, considerably more research is required to fully clarify and interpret what is happening to climate, especially on a regional scale, and how changes will affect human societies over the years to come.

It is a great human temptation to attribute just about everything to the cause - du - jour.

So, for question 2, you have to start making assumptions about how the climate works, and what is «natural,» and by comparing that to observations, estimate how much change you can attribute to human activity.

15) Let's take some of the most liberal assumptions that of the 380 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, only about 50 ppm is attributed to human industrialization and the rest is part of the natural CO2 cycle.

What we're talking about are basic human tendencies that derive from fundamental attribute of our psychology and our cognitive processing.

The ranking was based on highest scores for a compilation of five country attributes: «cares about human rights, gender equality, income equality, safe and progressive.»

«If you look at the verbal you will see how utterly stupid it is», Stock wrote to Tom Sargant, the first secretary of the human rights group Justice, about the self - incriminating statements attributed to him.

One of the distinctive attributes of human social cognition is our tendency to build models of other minds, which helps us make inferences about the mental states of others.

«Selecting ACT Tessera for our school had everything to do with my respect for its particular constructs; I was impressed that they were clearly aligned with the abundant research literature about what are indeed distinct and true human personality attributes.