Sentences with phrase «classical theories of»

Munich researchers now combine two competing classical theories of magnitude estimates.

«This phenomenon is impossible in classical theories of electromagnetism; hence this result provides a sensitive test of our understanding of QED, the quantum theory of electromagnetism.»

Classical theories of causation are unable to explain how a cause can have such an abiding influence on its effects.

The biblical interpretation stands, above all, under the archetype of the covenant, but it is also consonant with the classical theory of natural law as derived from ancient philosophy and handed down by the church fathers.

To conclude, altogether these observations revise the classical theory of enzymatic catalysis by including long - lasting protein - water coupled motions into models of functional catalysis.

The classical theory of electromagnetism was completed in the 1860s by James Clerk Maxwell.

In any case, «The classical theory of nucleation has turned out to be off - target by several orders of magnitude in some systems when it comes [to] quantitative predictions.»

This fractal distributiondirectly follows from the classical theory of turbulence developed by the Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov.

Classical theory of mantle plume is put in question: New insights from South Africa.»

LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Assistant Professor Ivan Agullo's new research advances knowledge of a classical theory of electromagnetism.

The school of thought was «founded» when Menger published his first book Principles of Economics in 1871, effectively criticizing the classical theory of economics that was commonly held at the time.

So far as I know to this day nobody has successfully explained the Photo - electric effect in terms of any classical theory of Physics.

Not exact matches

Classical portfolio theory holds that different sectors and asset classes outperform at different stages of the economic cycle.

The focus of classical value and price theory was to free economies from economic rent, defined as unearned income simply resulting from privilege: absentee land rent, mineral and natural resource rent, monopoly rent, and financial interest.

The global depression of the 1930s raised serious questions about this classical theory.

In the same way, classical physics has survived as a marginal special case within the framework of a much more comprehensive theory.

Pairing feminist theory with women's local wisdom, Jones exposes not only the potential pitfalls of classical doctrines, but also how, with some skillful feminist remapping, doctrines prove capacious enough for new generations of women to inhabit in grace - filled ways.

Sullivan worked closely with anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, and with Fromm and Horney as they together challenged classical psychoanalytic theory because of its inadequate instinctual and biological presuppositions.

Therefore, it is fair to say that the ontological presuppositions of liberal political theory were fated to undermine the classical and Christian moral inheritance and the nobility of liberalism's own ideals.

Modern theories of rhetoric have also been used to place new emphasis on argumentation, since much classical criticism has been overly concerned with arrangement and style.

There is nothing in the theory of evolution, nor in astronomy, or in geology, nor in paleontology, or any other branch of the sciences which contradicts Christianity, or any other type of theism (except Mormonism — we know scientifically that the Indian peoples of the Americas are not descended from the Jews — which is a key point of belief for them, much more central than there having been a literal Garden of Eden is for classical Christianity or Judaism).

In contrast to the classical Western neglect of the beautiful ones, there is the Hartshornean theory of «contributionism» which, like traditional African thought, maintains that, given a social conception of human existence, «the rational aim of the individual must in principle transcend any mere good of that individual» (EA 188).

Bergson's theory of matter is more like what we now call classical quantum physics.

This view of practice, closer to the classical view, necessarily (if often only implicitly) associates practice with theory or «metaphysics,» even if it does not exactly subordinate one to the other.

Introduction: In Search of a Context «Christologies based on a Europe - centered history, a too narrow or deductive Christ - centered theology, and a church - centered mission tied to classical dogmas about the person of Christ and theories of the atonement, which respond to Western needs, are not only irrelevant to the life of the people but often...

Thus the Inconsistency between Bohr's quantum theory and the assumptions of classical physics worried some physicists very much when it was first proposed, whereas others thought this inconsistency of little importance compared to the accuracy of the predictions which it yielded.

These difficulties facing the classical atomic theory are well known: secondary qualities remain inexplicable; no meaning can be given to the notion of an external world outside of the sense organs of the observer; organic time must be reversible — which it is not; we can never choose among hypotheses, since all of our mental states follow «from necessity,» so we don't have theories, but can only report autobiographies, and so on.

In consequence, with such models as their objective, physicists frequently formulate the content of quantum mechanics in the language of classically conceived particles and waves, because of certain analogies between the formal structures of classical and quantum mechanics... Accordingly, although a satisfactory uniformly complete interpretation of quantum mechanics based on a single model can not be given, the theory can be satisfactorily interpreted for each concrete experimental situation to which the theory is applied.2

There we find, in the classical atomic theory, the first appearance of the idea that space is a neutral insulator; and at about the same time, the antithetic view that it is a perfect superconductor.

Adam Smith, the founder of classical liberal economic theory, was also deeply concerned with morality.

; A. Gouldner, Enter Plato: Classical Greece and the Origins of Social Theory (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965), pp. 326ff.

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

Still, as I already indicated, there are also important differences between Hartshorne's neoclassical theory of analogy and any classical theory such as Aquinas's.

There is no question, then, that Hartshorne's theory of analogy, however similar to classical theories, is free of some of their most obvious and intractable difficulties.

Oakes appears to think that the American Catholic populace - at - large (including, presumably, him and me) is relieved from having opinions or making judgments about the justness of a particular act of war contemplated by our country because the classical just war theory permits those judgments only to statesmen and generals.

«Christologies based on a Europe - centered history, a too narrow or deductive Christ - centered theology, and a church - centered mission tied to classical dogmas about the person of Christ and theories of the atonement, which respond to Western needs, are not only irrelevant to the life of the people but often obstruct the life and witness of the church in Asia.»

In this regard, Hartshorne remains fully consistent with the other principles of process philosophy and abandons entirely the «substance» theory of the human soul or self as held by Plato, Augustine, Kant and other classical Western metaphysicians.

In accordance with classical mechanics and according to the special theory of relativity, space (space - time) has an existence independent of matter or field.

As Ole Bjerg points out in Making Money, a recent excursion into the philosophy of money, the classical theory leaves some puzzles in its wake.

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

In its entirety Whitehead's philosophy offers not only an original ontology, in the classical sense of the word of a theory of being, but includes also — as a critical basis of the former — an abundance of statements having to do with the genesis of ontological concepts.

Recently, even those who accept physico - chemical entities as a basis of all scientific knowledge have realized that something more may be involved in them than the properties of mass, energy, etc., attributed to them in classical theory.

Even if Adam Smith was not directly exposed to Ibn - Khaldun's economic thoughts, the fact remains that they were the original seeds of classical economics and even modern economic theory.

Not only did Ibn - Khaldun plant the germinating seeds of classical economics, whether in production, supply, or cost, but he also pioneered in consumption, demand, and utility, the cornerstones of modern economic theory.

It might be argued that all scientific inquiry, whether classical or contemporary, presupposes, perhaps in the sense that it makes some assumption with regard to, a theory of space and time structure, and that it obviously may be either an absolutist or a relational position.

ISBN 0 -8028-4368-9 page 16 states: «biblical scholars and classical historians regard theories of non-existence of Jesus as effectively refuted»

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Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

It does not have to subscribe to any of the «classical» theories of the Atonement; but Radhakrishnan's suggestion that it should forget about the notion that «God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself «42 it can not possibly heed.

From this point of view, classical economic theory from Adam Smith on, and Marxist theory as well, are paradigmatically modern, and both of the scenarios derived from the accounts summarized above, instead of breaking with the modern, carry it through with a more thoroughgoing consistency than ever before.