[The] social structures and attitudes in our society draw legitimacy from
the central assumptions of Western religion and philosophy.
In so doing, it partakes of
the central assumptions of the education profession itself and risks sliding over the edge into being a professional trade journal for educators, like, say, Phi Delta Kappan or Educational Leadership, rather than a watchdog on behalf of the broader American public.
The central assumption of DI is that every child can learn and any teacher can succeed with an effective curriculum and solid instructional delivery techniques.
Once the frame of reference departs from the trade of public securities and applies to buying or selling whole companies or buildings, however, it becomes apparent that such access may be severely lacking, and, hence, that one of
the central assumptions of the efficient market hypothesis has been violated.
In contrast, runoff proxies are nonlinearly related to a nonnormal climate variable (precipitation), and therefore violate two of
the central assumptions of the standard paleoclimate analysis toolkit.
I am looking at what has happened in the last ten years with respect to
the central assumptions of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) scare, about which I wrote a decade ago.
Not exact matches
For Zuckerberg to make meaningful progress toward all
of the objectives he outlined would require him to reexamine and reject
assumptions central to the success he has attained so far.
«The working
assumption of every
central bank is more governments would favor more growth and looser policy,» said Doug Porter, chief economist at Bank
of Montreal.
Because
of this extra capacity, the inflation spike this year — largely the result
of an inflation soft patch a year ago — will be temporary, eventually returning to the 2 - per - cent target, according to the
central bank's
assumptions.
Except in
central banking, the
assumption is no party has advanced knowledge and interest charges are competitive prices
of money already deposited and loaned, ex post.
On the
assumption that the BoE custody service primarily caters to
central bank customers, it's probably fair to say that 1) the bulk
of BoE gold represents official sector holdings and 2) gold held in other vaults is likely to be more investment - related.
So in principle, if we fiddle with our inflation
assumptions (from taking the guidance targets
of the relevant
central bank) we are making «bets» on inflation that are not knowable.
A print below 235K in the monthly Non-Farm Payroll report may dampen the Greenback rally as investors are forced to reassess their IR expectations and extend
assumptions on the timing
of a
Central Bank rate adjustment.
Altizer betrays his
assumption of a metaphysics when he states, «Hegel's
central idea
of kenosis, or the universal and dialectical process
of the self - negation
of being, provided me with a conceptual route to a consistently kenotic or self - emptying understanding
of the Incarnation, an understanding which I believe has been given a full visionary expression in the work
of William Blake.»
The timeliness — even the urgency —
of its
central question is plain from the first chapter to the last: Can religion be plausibly explained without the
assumption that «God» denotes a being
of a higher ontological rank than the mundane objects
of our daily experience?
Of course, Dewey proposed a universal method (sometimes calling it «the method of intelligence») and made cosmological assumptions that aggravate Richard Rorty (but that differ from Rorty's only in being more explicit than Rorty's own).8 But these are only ancillary to Dewey's central task, which was to use thought to promote adjustment between organisms and their histor
Of course, Dewey proposed a universal method (sometimes calling it «the method
of intelligence») and made cosmological assumptions that aggravate Richard Rorty (but that differ from Rorty's only in being more explicit than Rorty's own).8 But these are only ancillary to Dewey's central task, which was to use thought to promote adjustment between organisms and their histor
of intelligence») and made cosmological
assumptions that aggravate Richard Rorty (but that differ from Rorty's only in being more explicit than Rorty's own).8 But these are only ancillary to Dewey's
central task, which was to use thought to promote adjustment between organisms and their history.
It undermined my earlier
assumption... that there could be no conflict between true ends, true answers to the
central problems
of life.
In the following I wish to challenge this
assumption with regard to only one but a very
central relativistic concept — simultaneity — and thus I will show that Whitehead indeed not only modified that concept, but in Process and Reality he actually repudiated his earlier concept in favor
of one what is more compatible with Einstein's.
The New Delhi WCC Assembly (1961) rightly observed about culture within the pluralistic context: The
assumption that Western culture is the
central culture, and that therefore «Christian Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions
of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread
of the gospel and a stumbling block to those
of other traditions.
The text continues to hold on to the temple as a
central source
of hope for Israel, but it also knows that temple hope is profoundly problematic because it makes
assumptions about God's availability which crowd God and can not be sustained.
In this regard it is clear that moral education, even in its diversity and its oppositions, is more a story about the legitimation
of American culture than it is about its transformation; as in every generation in America, the substance
of moral education has reflected the
central assumptions and ideals
of the prevailing zeitgeist.
My first hermeneutical
assumption — and the most fundamental one — is that Jesus Christ is the bearer
of God's invitation to human wholeness and is the focal point
of God's humanizing action; hence, Jesus Christ is the
central norm through which and by which all else must be judged.
The history
of science provides many examples
of this combination
of analogy and innovation in the creation
of models which were useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model»
of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a
central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain
of its dynamical properties; but the key
assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.
Using new theoretical results and experiments on neuronal cultures, a group
of scientists, led by Prof. Ido Kanter,
of the Department
of Physics and the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar - Ilan University, has demonstrated that the
central assumption for nearly 70 years that learning occurs only in the synapses is mistaken.
To prove their
assumptions, the research team monitored a population
of blue tits living in a forest in
central Spain over the course
of two breeding seasons.
Using a few
assumptions about the lensing galaxy, Carilli and his colleagues calculate that the CO gas is actually in a relatively small 13,000 light - year — wide disk surrounding the
central black hole
of the quasar.
There was some evidence
of communication being a predictor
of satisfaction, but it wasn't «as strong as it should have been given how
central that
assumption is in theory as well as practice.
A new study by an Ithaca College professor challenges this
assumption by evaluating how much men and women consider their careers a
central part
of their identity.
He argued that physicists had been wrong about one
of their
central assumptions about black holes: namely, that nothing can escape their grasp.
«We do not disagree with the commonly held
assumption that over-eating is a
central cause
of obesity and metabolic syndrome,» Gewirtz says.
The
central theme
of modern economics is the
assumption of natural abundance — which is really just a special case, actually brought on partially by the stable climate
of the last 10,000 years.
The Hydrogen Analysis (H2A) production models provide transparent reporting
of detailed process design
assumptions and a consistent cost analysis methodology for the production
of hydrogen at
central and distributed (forecourt / filling - station) facilities.
Recent investigations have brought up support for the
assumption that the Milky Way may even have a pronounced
central bar like barred spiral galaxies M58, M91, M95, or M109, and thus be
of Hubble type SBb or SBc.
The
assumption of evenly distributed gas and the lack
of a
central, massive BH make these simulations imperfect.
In line with other Schrader movies, but perhaps more so than any, it defines itself against many
of the
central assumptions and conventions
of most mainstream moviemaking.
Perhaps you're idly wondering how this remake
of a 1974 vigilante - justice Charles Bronson flick engages with its subject, and interrogates the original film's
assumptions and, perhaps, recontextualizes its
central ethos
of «we white straight men are under attack and thus are so completely justified in slaughtering — ah, defending ourselves — with extreme (and literal) prejudice»?
, built its case on two interrelated
assumptions that became
central to discussions
of the American high school formost
of the 20th century.
This commission's final report, Cardinal Principles
of Secondary Education, built its case on two interrelated
assumptions that became
central to discussions
of the American high school formost
of the 20th century.
Candidates understand the major concepts,
assumptions, debates, processes
of inquire, and ways
of knowing that are
central to the subjects they teach.
To compose the analytic essay you need to collect the information that is
central to the argument you are examining — the claims, the evidence, and the
assumptions — and interprets the strengths and weaknesses
of all sides
of the debate.
In the decades leading up to the GFC, these
assumptions were transformed from empirically (con) testable propositions into the
central articles
of faith
of the ideology
of modern finance: the foundations
of a widely held belief in the self - correcting nature
of markets and their consequent optimality as mechanisms for the allocation
of society's resources.
The
assumption of objectivity that continues to haunt photography — the desire to trust our eyes — is a
central concern.
The idea
of this project comes out
of the
assumption that the anthropological problematic once again draws close attention or, in other words, the Human today once again becomes one
of the
central cultural issues.
For example, while estimates concerning
central tendencies
of distributions
of simulation outcomes are usually fairly robust because they are conditioned on ample data, estimates concerning the tails
of distributions (such as the probability
of falling below a critical biomass) are usually conditional on few data and thus often rely on
assumptions that have no strong knowledge base.
Warming
of 4 °C would increase
central estimates to more than 1,745 cities and 30 million people under either
assumption.
The
central assumption behind the TEB we have found is the probabilistic interpretation
of the CMIP5 ensemble.
I guess that this is based on the
assumption that the range
of total aerosol forcing is correct in the IPCC assessment: -1.2 w / m2 -LSB--2.7 to -0.4] http://www.skepticalscience.com/despite-uncertainty-CO2-drives-the-climate.html That
central value is almost on par with the CO2 forcing (+1.6), thus canceling most
of it.
«
Central to the theory
of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is the
assumption that the Earth and every one
of its subsystems behaviors as if they were blackbodies, that is their «emissivity» potential is calculated as 1.0.
Kellogg sank RAND Corp's 1950s fallout prediction computer model by formulating it in terms
of very wooden
assumptions (a static mushroom cloud, with particles unaffected by the
central updraft and the toroidal downdraft around the periphery), unlike the rival USNRDL «dynamic» or D - model
of fallout, which allowed heavy particles to fallout while small ones were still rising.
Yes, these empirical studies (and others that do not make
assumptions or set constraints that necessarily lead to large climate sensitivities, constitute a body
of evidence that the climate sensiitivity is about 1 deg C for doubling, 1/3
of the IPCC «
central» value.