Sentences with phrase «coherent explanations of»

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

Only in this way can we give a coherent explanation of the unitive dimension.

Regrettably, his idea of dynamic value grounded in physis is not a coherent explanation of his vision of transcendence, even though it does remind us of Camus unwavering objection to any notion of an immutable transcendence that deprecates temporality or lessens human freedom and responsibility.

Another important strength of Whitehead's solution to the problem of evil is that he provides a coherent explanation of the nature of good and evil and accounts for their production.

I also thought it would be helpful if we could get a coherent explanation of the differences between the various kinds of yoga that are currently being practiced, and how each style can help with achieving different kinds of goals.

If you haven't understood it in a systematic way from reading my blog, or those that I recommend, this book will give you a coherent explanation of how we got here.

He was iconoclastic, innovative, intellectual and could provide a highly coherent explanation of his vision of low - brow art, made out of ordinary materials, in which the spectator was entangled and obliged to participate.

However, if / when, say David's solar hypothesis offers a better explanation than the worn out CO2 bogyman, then that is surely a more coherent explanation of the null hypothesis, no?

The purpose of denial is doubt and confusion, so they don't have to create and defend a coherent explanation of the origins of life on Earth.

Bohm noted of prevailing views among physicists: «the world is assumed to be constituted of a set of separately existent, indivisible and unchangeable «elementary particles», which are the fundamental «building blocks» of the entire universe... there seems to be an unshakable faith among physicists that either such particles, or some other kind yet to be discovered, will eventually make possible a complete and coherent explanation of everything» (Bohm, 1980, p. 173).

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A theory, in the scientific sense, is «a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena» [Random House American College Dictionary].

Few states have ever provided a more cogent explanation for any public policy, and none has ever furnished a more coherent defense of the ban against assisted suicide.

A theory used in the scientific sense is «a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena.»

The difference between a metaphor and a model can be expressed in a number of ways, but most simply, a model is a metaphor with «staying power,» that is, a model is a metaphor that has gained sufficient stability and scope so as to present a pattern for relatively comprehensive and coherent explanation.15 The metaphor of God the father is an excellent example of this.

A coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena:

Theory - a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena.

Whitehead's metaphysical system, on the other hand, utilizes the axiomatic structure to form a coherent matrix of categories, yet, like Plato's Timaeus, offers an explanation of the limitations inherent in any cosmological endeavor.

An actual entity can now be described under the aspect of emerging [werdenden] coherence: insofar as such an entity is an emergence of a unified connectedness of coherent factors from incoherent elements, it is the emergence of a totality of meaning whose inner factors have significance only within this whole: «An entity is actual, when it has significance for itself» (PR 38: 21st Category of Explanation).

«a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity.

But understanding the latter involves, among other things, recourse to history, the integration of data into coherent patterns of explanation, and the use of sequential reasoning — all illnourished in a medium of electronic images or «scraps of information.»

And this is said pejoratively neither of metaphysics nor of science, since the quest for coherent explanation is intrinsic to the nature and dignity of human reason itself.

Nagel grants to models a continuing and irreplaceable role in the coherent extension and unification of scientific explanations.

@ Luis Enrique (and a bit @ Thomas): A conception of what political philosophy does might be something like: attempts to systematize political structures, in order both to provide as coherent an explanation as possible of our current intuitions, and extrapolate from them to prescriptions for how they might be improved / made more consistent.

The image of the weak seeking freedom, however distorted it might on occasion be, can easily neutralize the effect of a coherent explanation by the perceived stronger side.

Consistent with recommendations in the Next Generation Science Standards, the new THSB unit is designed to help students understand and use scientific practices of reading scientific texts, analyzing and interpreting data, building and using models, and constructing explanations along with a coherent set of core ideas about chemical reactions to make sense of interesting physical and life science phenomena.

Students are required to link the segments of the story together with arrows and write appropriate connectives on the arrows to create a coherent explanation.

They noted their lack of success in getting a coherent explanation from Muir Russell on the (untrue) finding of his panel on email deletion:

Jones» «explanation» of cruwlda2 being on the CRU website since 1996 was no more coherent.

Yours is not only the best, but the only coherent explanation I have ever come across explaining why most rural stations in Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri to name a few, your dotted area of this effect in the US, all show nearly flat records, some even negative, from 1895 onward.

Then I showed how no explanation of the three quantities was coherent with oridnary understanding of probabilities.

The government has given no coherent explanation for denying a child the right to live safely with relatives, who could provide the same continuity of care that foster for adoption aims to achieve.