Sentences with phrase «coherent theories»

Science needs coherent theories to advance and all you have is this undefined «natural variation» that you say has been warming the earth since 1950.

«Science needs coherent theories well they have coherent theories, say Judiths stadium wave.

«Well, I rolled the ball down the incline, here's a formula that fits the data, and I call this factor here...» Then later consolidating years of data into coherent theories.

The problem here is that the «forcings» are in fact some other inherent variables of the very same climate - bearing system, but there is no clear separation of time scales that allow for any sort of coherent theories like «averaging of fast motion» that results in Landau - Ginzburg - type equations for «slow envelopes».

She had learnt, she reckoned, from Pollock's «passionately creative personality» and from de Kooning's «quieter and more coherent theories», but felt drawn to «a more overtly emotional kind of art» which, like de Kooning's, felt unable to detach itself entirely from the representational.

He had a remarkable ability to examine dozens of scientific studies and create coherent theories that explained all of their results.

People still care about causation, mechanisms, and coherent theories, but in many disciplines, researchers are looking to supplement those traditional elements of science, harvesting gains from the data deluge by, in effect, learning from Google.

10 If we interpret the system ideal in this way, we will find ourselves, per necessitatem, building up from the parts in the effort to construct larger and larger coherent theories and sets of theories, in a manner reminiscent of Nicholas Rescher's «coherence machinery.

When, in the great movement of modern liberalism, we demythologized the state and rejected most of the metaphysical foundations of politics, we gained much» but we also lost something, and one of the things we lost is any coherent theory about the nation's continuing authority to enact such metaphysically fitting punishments as the death penalty.

He admits that it lacks a coherent theory of human subjectivity, but his Critique is designed to help correct this deficiency.

It is almost incompatible with any coherent theory of the evolution of species, i.e. of sorts.

Whitehead's ideal of a uniform, coherent theory would be better secured through an analogical use of the concept of entity than through the reduction to a single genus of entities, a move that Whitehead himself could not remain faithful to, as his concept of God shows.

An eminent and lucid scholar, Waltz committed the error of trying to fit an incorrect piece of a puzzle into a coherent theory.

In part, that's because researchers lack a coherent theory that can explain how and under what circumstances embodied effects occur.

Nonetheless, Stern credits Bramble and Lieberman for a clever, coherent theory.

His demand for a coherent theory of principle was uncompromising.

School districts rarely work with a coherent theory of action on how to raise student achievement.

Fusing performance, visual and time - based art forms, Campos, Rodriguez and Weinberg advance a coherent theory of art economics borrowing from the lingo and structure of business organizations.

His coefficients are not part of any coherent theory other than general Fourier analysis.

VP: His [Mke's] coefficients are not part of any coherent theory other than general Fourier analysis.

That is kids play compared to the necessary first step in finding a coherent theory of climate: admitting that you haven't already got one.

No, the key challenge will be coming up with a coherent theory of climate that honors observations and accurately predicts future states of the climate.

Over time Einstein's general theory has met all of these tests as a coherent theory which describes our observations of the universe and which is accepted by a strong consensus of experts.

Yes, people have ideas what they might be, but there is no coherent theory to explain the data.

Your argumentation is thus very remeniscent of the «climate skeptics», (leaving aside that you reference the work of one of them in their pet journal) providing, in answer to a coherent theory, a whole slew of doubts on particulars and a barely plausible scenario with little underlying structure.

- There is a coherent theory of the inappropriately - named «greenhouse» — generally under the term the radiative transfer equations.

Restatements are written by committees led by a distinguished law professor in the particular field called a «reporter» and unlike the West Digest System sacrifice being fully and accurately descriptive, in favor of articulating a single coherent theory of an area of law that theoretically represents a majority position of the states on that body of the common law, something that is more art than science.

It was only as we began to attract students who were interested in our work that we each encountered the need to conceptualize what we were doing more clearly and develop a coherent theory of practice that we could teach.

Given that research has crossed multiple disciplines, the lack of a single coherent theory for the psychology of human fertility is not surprising.

Imago Relationship Therapy is a comprehensive yet remarkably coherent theory and application.

Not exact matches

Not that I would dream of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to grasp just how nihilistic the late modern view of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense of «nature» at all, let alone of any realm of moral meanings to which nature might afford access.

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].

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

Metaphysical realism, understood in a processive way, requires this triple sense of objectivity: novel human doings in need of guidance, long - enduring systems of belief that provide the schemata of interpretation by which that guiding can be done, and opportunistic skill in sculpting act and theory, fact and canon, into a coherent, fruitful basis for intelligent action.

Nevertheless, the possibility of a coherent quantum theory based on process thought is, in principle, important for the project of recovering a comprehensive vision in which a biblical understanding of God finds an important role.

Temporalism is coherent with the epochal theory

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.

The theory of evolution encompasses a huge amount of observation into a coherent set of ideas that provide a guidance for further study.

Theories that first led to new discoveries are usually favored over subsequent theories that can give an equally coherent account of the same facts, which is why this criterion is usually distinguished from the otTheories that first led to new discoveries are usually favored over subsequent theories that can give an equally coherent account of the same facts, which is why this criterion is usually distinguished from the ottheories that can give an equally coherent account of the same facts, which is why this criterion is usually distinguished from the other two.

These findings are quite new and lacking somewhat in modern proof, but makes a much more coherent and evident theory of our country's origin than an obscure mapmaker.

Even within physics there is not much interest in developing a coherent quantum theory or integrating relativity theory with it.

«Some accepted examples of actual scientific practice — examples which include law, theory, application and instrumentation together — provide models from which spring particular coherent traditions of scientific research.»

However, the Church's theological discourse can not be so intimately bound to any one scientific theory, as «the final way» to explain something, that it becomes difficult to separate itself from such a theory, either because a theological doctrine itself can no longer be explained without it (which it can) or because a scientific theory has been superseded by a more coherent scientific theory (better able to explain reality) as is the nature of progress in science.There is a precedent for this in the Galileo controversy from the 1600s.

The rise to dominance of a single market - driven advertiser - sponsored and ideologically coherent press system, claiming to represent diverse publics, and invoking Constitutional protection of its freedom to virtually preempt the marketplace of ideas, further strains democratic political theory.

Since some resolution of them is necessary to a coherent interpretation of Hartshorne's meaning, there is nothing to do but to work through them before discussing what I take to be the major difficulties of his theory.

People who believe in both revealed and natural truth must strive continuously to elevate the public conversation to consider theories, logical conclusions, and coherent first principles.

So any general theory of biology (which must include the concept of hierarchy) must thereby explain the origin, operation, reliability and persistence of these constraints which harness matter to perform coherent functions according to a hierarchical plan.

In any event, of all the theories which we may evolve concerning the end of the Earth, it is the only one which affords a coherent prospect wherein, in the remote future, the deepest and most powerful currents of human consciousness may converge and culminate: intelligence and action, learning and religion.

Two reasonably coherent, significantly different theories of perception emerge from these groupings.

Thus, in a series of works published in 1919 and the early 1920s, in opposition to relativity theory, Whitehead argued not only that the geometry of the world was uniform, but that «the properties of time and space express the basis of the uniformity in nature which is essential for our knowledge of nature as a coherent system» (R 8, 29).1 Furthermore, he held that this uniformity was actually discerned there (H 14).