Sentences with phrase «attempts at explanation»

The rest, known as dark matter, still defies their best attempts at explanation.

If our models are to lead us to ask, and seek answers for, new questions about the world, we must regard them as something more than «logical superfluities», «illicit attempts at explanation», «convenient fictions», or the like.

Second, it explains in depth the magical sense of presence (or co-presence) which is so important in teaching and learning experience, and which has proven so evasive of attempts at explanation.

This is why any theoretical attempt at an explanation of the problem of suffering must go deeper than philosophy can take us.

«The original problem with religion is that it is our first, and our worst, attempt at explanation.

Ragan, Probably my attempt at an explanation will not help your husband.

One attempt at explanation makes reference to procedure.

The attempts at explanations provided by Job's friends fall short.

For the last two years, the star's bizarre behavior has confounded astronomers, who have invoked several ideas — a hypothesis involving a gigantic «alien megastructure» being proffered only half in jest — in their attempt at an explanation.

Get the full rundown (or at least a lengthier attempt at explanation) on this week's show, VGH # 157: The Ambiguity Continues.

Without a description any attempt at explanation is shooting at a moving target.

So your dice are out, as is your attempt at an explanation.

The board does not make it clear (and indeed in this case does not need to make clear) how far they would expect the respondents to go in their attempt to explain the crash but no attempt at any explanation is clearly unacceptable.

Not exact matches

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

These comments appeared to me to be a bit pejorative as there was no attempt at biblical refutation or even explanation of the context of your statements.

Basically, the whole of XX century cosmology is an attempt at providing an alternate nonsensical explanation to empirical evidence that demanded a very close God.

There is no long, wordy explanation of why the leper is where he is at now, no attempt to «soften» Jesus up by telling Him how great and wonderful and awesome He is, no repetition of the name of Jesus.

If you can't understand my explanation above and see that as an attempt at discrediting, without pointing out where exactly it's wrong, then there isn't much more I can do, other than hope one day you'll learn something.

Here is the explanation of the failure of many attempts at reconstruction in theology; they sought to pick and choose among ideas which are really inseparable aspects of one idea.

So my initial attempt at finding an alternative explanation for the troubling texts in the flood led nowhere.

John Cahill on an enthusiastic and thorough explanation of Confession; Robert Wilde finds God in the desert of the heart, mind and world; Suzanne Stevenson on Christ in Gethsemane as a source of consolation for those suffering from depression; James Prior on two attempts to reconcile creation and evolution which fail to convince and Christopher Jackson finds much to recommend in a guidebook for Catholics at or going to university.

«These papers are the first published attempts at a detailed explanation and it's possible that both explanations are correct.»

I'd like to do my little bit to help, so here is an attempt at a commonsense explanation of how image - recognition algorithms work.

Our failure to find similar results even after three close replication attempts, along with the methodological and statistical issues discussed above and at least one other published report of a failed replication attempt [17], leads us to favour the «experimental artifacts» explanation for Bem's original result.

I suspected at first that the gluten - free craze was an attempt by some to find a physical explanation for emotional problems, similar to the «epidemic» of hypoglycemia in decades past.

The movie has a mean sense of humor that undermines its attempts at a feel - good romantic comedy (What other explanation is there for the cut from the mention of tragedy to a group of deaf children?).

Monahan's script adapts the story of James Toback, whose actual gambling exploits first inspired the 1974 film; only in this 2014 version, the character drama is saddled with an attempt at greater depth, with Monahan relying on lengthy explanations and pontifications where the original film preferred action and implication to convey its deeper themes and ideas.

By summoning piecemeal memories from his life, Jonathan desperately tries to sort through the events that led to his incarceration — as much an attempt at personal understanding as an explanation and confession to his beloved friend.

ALWAYS know exactly what you are signing before you sign it, keep a file copy, and get explanations of anything that is at all unclear... and if in doubt over anything more than a trivial agreement consider hiring a lawyer to read thru it and tell you which items you should attempt to have crossed out.

The «stadium wave» as a partial systemic or meta explanation of the natural evoultion of climate affecting factors is an intersting, cogent and logical step to understanding this sort of thing — it might mot be right, but at least it's an attempt, even if it will take years or decades to determine if it's on the right track and what other factors need to be added / removed to make it an effective and usefully predictive tool.

is one of Willis» attempts to backpedal after a number of observers pointed out (like I have) that his original explanation of his «adjustments» to the ARGO data was indistinguishable from simple data fudging to arrive at a desired result.

That's my attempt at a simple (low level) explanation.

Seems ter serfs that the model projections or predictions have been falsified by observation and the multitude of post hoc explanations for there temperature plateau are attempts at theory inoculation like attempts to «explain the missing hotspot.

The judge, having observed the claimant testify at trial and lamely attempt to offer several explanations for his deceitful behaviour, formed the very strong view that his evidence lacked any strong degree of credibility.

In an attempt to tease apart these explanations, Dr. Holt - Lunstad's research team (also consisting of Wendy Birmingham of Huntsman Cancer Institute and Kathleen Light of the University of Utah) studied 34 married couples that took part in an intervention and had oxytocin levels measured at two time points separated by four weeks.