Sentences with phrase «by arbitrary adjustment»

Not exact matches

His machine is just as much an abstraction as he claims the materialists» matter is: an arbitrary, idealized device with absolutely identical interchangeable parts, with no history and no determinate future, completely subject to adjustment and transformation by its human inventors and users.

While the level of a company's stock price is arbitrary, because it can be manipulated by firms via adjustments in the number of shares outstanding, it's been well - documented that individual investors are influenced by nominal prices.

Totally harmless when you consider that half the warming since 1880 is arbitrary data «adjustments» made after the year 2000 (by NASA — GISS).

Or do you mean adjustments such as «arbitrary done by hand»?

The explained variance claimed by [Shaviv and Veizer, 2003] is the maximum achievable by optimal smoothing of the temperature data and by making several arbitrary adjustments to the cosmic ray data (within their large uncertainty) to line up their peaks with the temperature curve.

Many, if not most, of these adjustments were done by computer algorithms, which are by design, are arbitrary.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

A $ 350,000 cap was enacted in 1995, which with inflation adjustments rose to $ 445,775 before it was struck down by the state Supreme Court in 2005 as being arbitrary and violating the equal protection provision of the state constitution.