Sentences with phrase «better than no theory»

There is no hierarchy of knowledge and a law is not better than a theory.

We know it doesn't work any more but we can't quite let go of it because even a bad theory seems better than no theory at all.

Not that this is of any matter, this constant back and forth of my graph is better than your graph, this data is better than your data, my speculation is better than your theory just proves the obvious, nobody knows.

Not exact matches

«Its theory seems to be: Let's get lots of people to push for all sorts of things and the world will get better, it's kind of a shot gun approach rather than a targeted one.

YouTube Kids, an app that is purportedly more well - policed than YouTube's own website, contains videos promoting debunked and frightening conspiracy theories.

We need to have a better response for workers than, «In theory, you'll be okay.»

Some gadgets work better in theory than practice.

Testing hypotheses and trading arguments about theories often works better than planting a flag and asking team members to try to topple you from opinion mountain.

Many technology companies like Facebook (fb) and Google have similar programs under the theory that it's better to be hacked by a trusted party as a preventative measure rather than being unknowingly breached by criminals.

In theory, each of these ideas would be best tested across more than just one building or street, and all of them would be more easily implemented together.

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When I worked at Bridgewater Associates, I regularly came across marketing materials about the theory behind risk parity and evidence that risk parity portfolios perform better than traditional portfolios on a risk - adjusted basis.

And as usual, advisory firms like Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) are joining with the public pension funds to demand governance reforms that perform better in theory than in practice.

On a final note, a new study lends additional credibility to the theory of «wisdom of crowds,» which states that large groups of people are smarter and better at analyzing data than an elite few.

The theory goes that if the average selling price teetered to the lower side, it would indicate that Apple's older iPhones were selling much better than the newest model, the iPhone 5.

When you see a lot of theory, you end up discovering that everything good is generally simpler than the more complicated things, and this also affected me for the rest of my life» Jorge Paulo Lemann

But investors did much better in recent decades than history or theory would suggest.

Under efficient market theory, all information is fully accounted for, and one should not expect to do better than the market itself.

If I remember my economics correctly, an extension of Ricardo's theory is that countries do not have to have an advantage over other countries in a particular area, just that they are relatively better at one thing than another.

better yet why not hold Medel in highest esteem as his work in genes lays the true foundation for the Modern theory of Evolution, which owes much more to gene theory than Darwin's.

Nothing supports my theory better than this ritual of the Mormon faith.

The best way to succeed, I would contend, is to move back and forth between the worlds of theistic natural law theory and secular moral theory, rather than trying to occupy a supposedly neutral ground between the two.

I have no reason to believe their judgment selecting candidates for office or voting on referenda is any better than their judgment evaluating doomsday theories.

Even if the current theory of evolution turns out to not be 100 % correct, it is a FAR better assumption than that some Beard Man or Zeus or whatever made us out of magic dust or something.

There is no fossial records other than an extict chimp, there is no archeological records, but there is a darn good theory.

The Muslim theory that unborn babies receive their soul at forty days enables them to agree with us on eight of the nine months of pregnancy, and as Chesterton said, something is better than nothing!

well if i had a theory and later found it to not be ture and refuted it then i would not want anyone else to belive it either as i found it wasnt true and further more i would like to think that me and all other humans are better than coming from an animal that eats bugs off its friends and throws its own poo... I'm just saying

To interpret cultural and religious differences in terms of a theory of interests works no better than to ignore the role of class interests within all societies.

It is arguably the best supported scientific theory of all time, much better understood than things like gravity.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

Poles have, in human and electoral terms, handled these matters better than they have in «theory» and rhetoric.

Transformism as well as, if not better than, the theory of «fixed types» can give to the universe that grandeur and depth and unity which are the natural atmosphere for Christian faith.

I suppose in theory, this is somewhat true, but if God was waiting until there was a common language and good lines of communication before sending Jesus, He could have picked no better time than right before humans decided to build the Tower of Babel.

too true; you're right, we are holistic people in a holistic world living holistic lives and political theory, religion, ethics, behavior, psychology, these and many others are all so inextricably intertwined with each other that it may be better to think of them as different views of the same object rather than distinct objects that are inter-related (using «object» here, of course, metaphorically)

And the thing is that you haven't even given all of the theologies and theories to even be brought up to date; that is except only the only Reality finds appropriate without even proving why those particular theories and theologies are even better than others.

Scientific theories that have been shown to be «wrong» in the past were at best only shown to be partially wrong, and more often than not the wrong parts were forced upon scientists by religion and the church.

There were many ways to live, not simply one, the spiritual theory taught, all of them good, some of them better than others from one moment to the next.

I recall reading an article on this theory of organic creation that estimated it would take 10 to 15 times longer, in a best case scenario, than the age of the Universe which is currently estimated at 14.6 billion years.

I would add, following the example of the best American Catholic «public philosophers» John Courtney Murray and Orestes Brownson, that we should, as loyal Americans [we Porchers and REM fans are all about standing for the place where we live], actually explain why our Fathers built better than they knew — which means criticizing their thinking and affirming [most of] their practice with a theory that at least wasn't completely their own.

A theory is a model that best explains observed phenomena, their is no higher level in science than a theory.

From simple things like the so - called «earth heartbeat» predicted by multiple theories — some better than others, but most ridiculed as a bunch of hippies — to activity which is perfectly analogous to neuro - networks along cosmic filaments, and many others.

Smith has a theory about why atheists did so well on the quiz - they have thought more about religion than most people.

Uniting so many of these new voices, it, seems, is not a theory of hermeneutics, much less a revised correlational method for theology, but a new hermeneutical practice that actualizes that theory and that method better than many of the theorists do.

Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

No less a mathematical authority than Alonzo Church, in his review of the second edition of volumes II and III, claims that in the whole of volume I (over 700 pages of closely argued mathematical logic introductory to the theory of cardinal numbers) and together with volumes II and III (themselves enormous tomes) one gets «cardinal numbers, relations and relation - numbers, series, well ordered series and ordinal numbers, and finally the continuum of real numbers» (BAMS34: 237).

But neither of them, any more than Tocqueville a few decades later, proposed an alternative theory in which freedom would be answerable to a fully knowable Order or the right could be logically derived from The Good.

His theory is better than the gnostic - influenced crap Augustine came up with.

Today, more than three hundred years after John Locke spelled out his theory that the greatest good is served by each person following his or her own best interests, some economists and politicians are still trying to bend and stretch this outmoded «explanation» of life to fit social realities that say it just doesn't meet human needs today.

And as Feyerabend insists, we can not rule Out in advance the search for new unifying models (such as David Bohm's postulation of sub-atomic causal mechanisms), even though previous attempts have not yielded any new theories in better agreement with the data than quantum theory.11 Coherence remains an important ideal and criterion in all reflective enquiry.

Maybe it would be a good idea to go through the Z theory step by step rather than taking it as an overarching whole.