Sentences with phrase «by analogy much»

The research found attorneys and judges in the pre-computer decade used reasoning by analogy much more frequently than they did in the recent decade.

Not exact matches

What we might rather hope for, as Stanley Hauerwas suggests, are the discoveries of analogies between the traditions that might help Jews and Christians alike «survive in a world that is not constituted by the recognition much less the worship of our God.»

To cite the famous analogy of William James, which has been reinforced since his time by much more knowledge of depth psychology than was then available, personality is like an iceberg of which about one tenth is visible while the rest lies beneath the surface.

Biologists have paid much less attention to the equally significant but opposite phenomena — absence of evolutionary parallelisms where they could, by analogy, be expected.

The analogy has recently been put in much more sophisticated terms by Richard Dawkins in computer models that incorporate random elements, reproduction, and selection, much as in the model of the blind painters (Dawkins).

Older critical attempts to illustrate the relevance of the past by means of historical analogy require too much recasting of the narrative and simple speculation, and may presume too great a curiosity about these matters to begin with.

Duméry makes much of this, whether it be a question of descriptive analogies like those of Otto in The Idea of the Holy or of a justification of these analyses by a critique of knowledge such as is suggested by the works of Husserl, Scheler, or Gabriel Marcel.

The guy was a head coach who QUIT on his new owner that he retroactively had signed a contract with, then intervewed for the Jets head job where I guess he brought a little too much Buffalo to the interview since he was eliminated from contention in just a couple of weeks, and now hes in Jacksonville where his main job is protecting Blake Bortles, which to use a Jacksonville analogy - is like being a strip mall rent - a-cop where your anchor store is a Big Lots that has been over run by opossoms.

On the housing segregation by income and class, I would much prefer to use analogies with the Parisian suburbs, gated communities, and (perhaps over-dramatically) the social stratification of Dickensian London, or (most accurately) the electoral gerrymandering of Shirley Porter.

«We wanted to ask how age impacts autophagy — is it at the beginning of the process by increasing the rate at which APs are formed, or, by analogy, how many garbage trucks are rolling out on the street — or is it at the end of the process by blocking the conversion of APs to ALs, i.e., how much recycling is taking place at the recycling plant.

Gibson explains by analogy that emotions can be broken down into these emotion primitives much as a secondary color, such as orange, can be separated into two primary colors, yellow and red.

By using the superfluid helium analogy, we have predicted that there should be other Higgs bosons, which are much heavier (about 1 TeV) than previously observed,» says Professor (emeritus) Grigory E. Volovik.

(An analogy clarifies how little force this is: the weight of your forearm on a desk overpowers 500 piconewtons by about as much as the weight of Hoover Dam outpowers your forearm.)

Thank you so much for stopping by sweet friend, and I'm so glad you liked my nail polish analogy... I'm usually in that state where I just need to take it off too;) Happy weekend cutie!!

Sadly, the fact that the villains in this movie destroy the world by using too much magic seems like too perfect an analogy for what happened to Jones when he tries to put too much on the screen.

When she meets a character who's response to early tragedies is much more sinister than her own the reader is pulled in and a bit breathless as page by page the intensity mounts and the question is whether Claire will prevail or succumb like the frog swimming in the ever hotter pan of water (the author's analogy).

But by the time we get down to the social «sciences,» the analogies are much more open to question.

But so are the analogies, including the shockingly irresponsible conspiracy - theorizing petition - mongering by people with irrelevant doctorates (and the odd head of state) at great public health risk to the world in general and much of Africa in particular.