Sentences with phrase «about the causality of»

As pragmatic as I may sound, being part of the committee is important to spread the word about the causality of everything that could involve our community cats.

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The operative word here is only, I have seen far too many causalities where the projected numbers have looked fantastic and people invested without bothering to understand business and the story have had miserable returns What to do when you are really optimistic about future of the company want your customers to buy?

Forecasting In contrast to the predictive uselessness of conventional assumptions about the direction of causality between social events and mood (see opening paragraph), the socionomic perspective allows a basis for at least some limited probabilistic forecasting.

Finally, this conclusion about causality fails to answer the question of why antitrust suits are typically brought after the stock market has climbed for years or even decades to a state of overvaluation in a climate of rampant speculation rather than at any other time.

Orientation which acts as the all - embracing is thoroughly godless; godless also is the theologian who places his god in causality, a helping formula of orientation, and the spiritualist who knows his way about in the «true world» and sketches its topography.

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While Hauerwas may be quite correct in asserting that it is impossible to ascertain specifically exactly what is determined and what is self - determined in concrete situations or more generally about one's character, a conceptual elaboration of the relationship between efficient and final causality would have been helpful in clarifying the issue.

Panexperientialist physicalism, with its alternative metaphysics, implies a different understanding of both causality and science, one that does not conflict with our inevitable presuppositions about ourselves.

At the ontological level, the level of efficient causality, divine persuasion is not operative; «forbearance would mean non-existence...» But once humanity is created and God resolves to relate himself to humankind in terms of persuasion and not coercion, God «would have to be uncertain about a number of details of the future... and in some respects unable to accomplish his will at all.»

He could say nothing about what it is, and his own account of causality precluded assigning it any causal role in relation to the phenomena.

This abrupt turn from a causal theory of consciousness to talk about emergent properties not only leaves the puzzle about causality dangling, it compounds the mystery by evoking still more elementary puzzles about the meaning of emergence and evolution, as well as about how and where to locate sentience in an evolving «physical world.»

When talk about sentience deploys the apparatus of causality and refers to bodies and their organs as «organic machines,» language is forced to the brink of incoherence.

Since Buber and Nygren want to speak about love in «non-causal» terms our alternative analysis of this category is especially necessary.6 I argue against Buber and Nygren that love is meaningless without causality.

In this way [236] Whitehead bestows subjectivity and finality upon all instances of process generally, so that in this perspective the question about their higher development is logically reduced to the question of how much they have «conceptually» acquired of this formal causality.

However, the introduction of quantum mechanical principles in the early part of this century brought about a dramatic change In our notions of causality, by allowing the concept of non-deterministic evolution of dynamical systems to gain ground in the natural sciences.

More importantly, the reciprocal causalities within the concrescence of a process - based ontology brings about an awareness of an added ethical dimension in an evolving universe.

By working toward a realistic metaphysics — in line with common sense — Whitehead is attempting to answer some of the basic questions about the nature of causality, actuality, the mental and physical poles.

This is an abstract of an observational study that can establish only association but does not prove causality; this is confirmed by the authors themselves in the press release when they state ``... so we can not say that low kilojoule beverage cause these problems... there may be other factors about people who drink more diet drinks that could explain the connection.»

There is a bit of a debate about the role of animal protein in diet, mostly about the studies that only show associations of protein and disease and not hard evidence of causality.

This might also address Nick's point about direction of causality.

The causality can often be reversed: Protests lead to media coverage and discussion of an issue which results in people forming an opinion about the issue in the first place.

What about the argument that you can follow chains of causality back to the beginning of the universe, so everything is predetermined?

Such is the case with most of the big questions about the history of the Earth, says Paul Renne, director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center: «Often, our arguments about causality depend on timing.»

Although nothing in the laws of nature appears to rule out time travel, physicists have always been uneasy about it because it makes a mockery of causality, the idea that cause always precedes effect.

«Our finding, in a species so distantly related to humans and lacking symbolic language, raises numerous questions about the kinds of understanding of «folk physics» and causality available to nonhumans, the conditions for these abilities to evolve, and their associated neural adaptations,» the authors conclude.

Michael Brooks raises an important point about how we regard causality in his look at the paradoxes of a quantum...

«We knew if you could speed the information up successfully, it would give rise to all kinds of causality problems, as you see in science fiction movies about people traveling back in time.

«Remarkably, they learn about causality even if the people they are watching make mistakes and are right some but not all of the time.»

The researchers point out, however, that it was an observational study and that no definite conclusions about causality between Apgar score and the risk of neurological morbidity in babies can be drawn.

Learning about causality — about the physical rules that govern the world around us — is a crucial part of our cognitive development.

In our study, symptoms of depression occurred in the two weeks before interview and sexual dissatisfaction in the year before interview but, as we don't know when the period of infertility occurred, we can not make assumptions about causality and are in favour of further investigation into the long term impact of infertility on women's well - being.»

Olympus Has Fallen comes from a long line of dumb action flicks that are more concerned about high body counts and how many rounds of ammunition can be pumped into nameless causalities at high speeds than little things like plot, logic, and character.

As per usual — a phrase that critics have to invent at least a dozen variations on when writing about Hong — this creates a sense of fluid causality, which matters a great deal in a movie that's largely about people trying to recapture moments that happened only minutes ago, but are already slipping away.

It has things to say about causality, even down to the casting, with a dead - on Martin Short as the coked - out head of a criminal smuggling empire Doc somehow misconstrues to be a Chinese man.

Her current research investigates how causal concepts and assumptions about the nature of causality impact students» ability to learn complex science concepts.

Turning transfer inside out: The affordances of virtual worlds and mobile devices in real world contexts for teaching about causality across time and distance in ecosystems.

Randomized evaluations of educational interventions are important for producing, in comparison to studies employing other methods, reliable findings about causality.

Tina Grotzer is a cognitive scientist whose research identifies ways in which understandings about the nature of causality impact our ability to deal with complexity in our world.

MBDs will allow students to collect and share data using probeware, cameras, and microphones; access on - demand, on - site information about ecosystem components; and visit geo - referenced locations to directly observe critical components of the ecosystem and to experience virtual simulations related to their underlying causality.

She identifies ways in which understandings about the nature of causality impact our ability to deal with complexity in our world and to learn science.

She also directs the Understandings of Consequence Project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which identifies default assumptions about the nature of causality that students bring to their learning.

When you reason about investing, write out the chain of causality, and recognize that things that are certain are less than certain.

So to my mind this issue does not fall into the category of it being an arbitrary claim about causality without any basis or in your words it being a case where it is «quite easy to claim anything».

All I am arguing for in my comment (# 176) is that the actual logical position about causality and proof of causality be stated accurately (I don't think that Revkin did this, while I do think that Gavin did) so that stakeholders can make their own decisions about what action they think they should take now to manage the potential risk.

I spoke on the phone last week to Simon Craddock Lee, the cancer analyst at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center cited above, about breast cancer in Texas and he pointed to the reality that raw rates of cancer incidence and deaths say nothing about causality, given the mix of social and environmental factors in play.

Although there are extreme limitations on what is known about potential tipping points the new paradigm does provide an opportunity to reframe the climate wars — clearly that nearly everyone has been dead wrong about the essential nature of Earth systems using simple causality rather then dynamical complexity.

What is the direction of causality behind why the referees objectivity is brought into question — particularly with issues where people absolutely certain about the referees objectivity don't actually even know that the referee has said or understand how the science relates to what the referee said?

Anyone who knows about causality and science, knows that this indicates that temperature drives CO2, and gives no indication of CO2 driving temperature — though it does not exclude the possibility that CO2 can have an effect on Temperatur...

Figure 4 says nothing about the direction of causality.

The report should evaporate any remaining doubt about the reality, causality, and severity of the issue.