Sentences with phrase «by observation alone»

Clearly just by observation alone we can determine that an all loving perfect god is a false idea AND we have not even gotten to the mess that is our holy texts and all that implies.

And in that sense, a climate model is nothing more or less than a conceptual model, necessary to give a frame of reference to the state of the real world, which can never be generated by observations alone (which are incomplete, may be inconsistent, contradicting each other, biased, non-representative,...).

Not exact matches

The importance of auditory experiences for the interpretation of reality is proven through observation of deaf children... A world without sound is a dead world; when sound is eliminated from our experience, it becomes clear how inadequate and ambiguous is the visual experience if not accompanied by auditory interpretation... Vision alone without acoustic perceptions does not provide understanding.

Schweitzer's ethical mysticism begins with a reflective observation of the finite world («I am urge - to - life»), moves to an empirical generalization («in the midst of other wills - to - live»), is made cosmic by an intuitive insight, which is the completing or mystical element of thought («all is part of a cosmic or universal will - to - live»), and returns to the finite for experiential verification in ethical participation («Ethics alone can put me in true relationship with the universe by my serving it, cooperating with it; not by trying to understand it... It is through community of life, not community of thought, that I abide in harmony... [«The Ethics of Reverence for Life,» Christendom, Vol.

Most of the time, GERD and reflux in babies are diagnosed by examination and by parents» and nurses» observation of symptoms alone.

Consequently, until we have better ways of defining those patients who have been cured by SLN biopsy alone (or the long - term results of current prospective trials indicate otherwise), nodal observation should be chosen by SLN - positive patients only after very careful consideration, and not routinely recommended by surgeons or oncologists as a proven alternative to avoiding CLND.

Professor Bargmann was also intrigued by the observation that some worms tended to forage alone while others preferred to clump together, and suspected a genetic explanation.

This mentality sprang from the simple observation that market-wise, the release of a new game published by them affects their other games the same way as external rivals, and thus «Red Dead stands alone».

By contrast, now, in Washington alone, the NatureMapping program has produced more than 110,000 observations of 420 species.

Some very relevant observations made recently by Garry Kasparov re man / machines working together — ``... Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process.»

As to your observation that you're too busy to keep up with rotating rewards categories, such as those offered by the Chase Freedom and Discover More cards, you are not alone.

In particular, Annan and Hargreaves (2006) used a Bayesian statistical approach that combines information from both 20th century observations and from last glacial maximum data to produce an estimate of climate sensitivity that is much better constrained than by either set of observations alone (see our post on this, here).

Nor can a comparison between observations and AR4 projections be made «scientifically better» — let alone valid in accounting terms — by replacing actual AR4 documents and graphics with a spaghetti graph that did not appear in AR4.

«An identified change is detected in observations if its likelihood of occurrence by chance due to internal variability alone is determined to be small, for example, < 10 %.

This mentality sprang from the simple observation that market-wise, the release of a new game published by them affects their other games the same way as external rivals, and thus «Red Dead stands alone».

The purpose is to detect leaks that have not manifested themselves visually and, therefore, can not be picked up by pure observation alone.