Sentences with phrase «comprehensive theory»

The most comprehensive theory helps to improve prevention or intervention treatment for at - risk or affected children.

To be sure, there are anthropologists, who helpfully describe the logos of anthropos, and there are psychologists, who offer comprehensive theories of human behavior.

So far, efforts to create comprehensive theories about how brain activity generates the mind have been hampered simply by the lack of data on how large assemblies of neurons function.

An accepted comprehensive theory is overthrown not primarily by discordant data but by an alternative theory; we should visualize not a two - way confrontation of theory and experiment, but a complex confrontation of rival theories and a body of data of varying degrees of susceptibility to reinterpretation.

«The cognitive process of «getting» a joke is a difficult process to model, and we consider the work in this paper to be an early first step toward an eventually more comprehensive theory of humor that includes predictive models.

Whitehead anticipated that in the future, as in the past, given scientific theories would be superseded by more comprehensive theories:

Modern neuroscience continues to demonstrate that psychoanalysis is the most comprehensive theory and treatment of the mind / personality.

Likewise, but in a more systematic way, the Puritans developed a comprehensive theory of personal spiritual record - keeping, with the journal as the key instrument.

We do not need a comprehensive theory or even a successful definition of justice before demanding this correction.

Somewhat programmatically, the analysis sets the conditions for an adequate, integrated, and comprehensive theory of time, which must either include in some synthetic way all of the elements and their relations or else demonstrate how one or more of these can be successfully reduced to other concepts.

We may not focus on this much, we may not bring it to explicit awareness, and we may not seek to set it out in a comprehensive theory; but we are always living it.

Something rather like a «gestalt switch» does occur in moving from one comprehensive theory to another.

To summarize: the scheme I have outlined accepts the three «subjective» theses that (1) all data are theory - laden, (2) comprehensive theories are highly resistant to falsification, and (3) there are no rules for choice between research programmes.

In the very early stages, when a comprehensive theory and its development into a research programme are first proposed, empirical criteria seldom have a predominant role.

Second, comprehensive theories are highly resistant to falsification, but observation does exert some control over them.

Unlike a gestalt switch, however, there are in science criteria for favouring one interpretation over another — though I will suggest that in the very early stages, when a comprehensive theory of wide scope is first proposed, these criteria seldom yield definitive conclusions.

Consequently, comprehensive theories are «incommensurable» 3

Before he died, he completed, together with Hiley, a comprehensive theory that can account for all the known facts in a far less paradoxical fashion than had been thought possible.

Data are theory - laden; comprehensive theories are resistant to falsification; and there are no rules for paradigm choice.

Comprehensive theories are highly resistant to falsification, and there are no rules for choice between research programmes.

I will suggest that comprehensive theories are indeed resistant to falsification, but that observation does exert some control over theory; an accumulation of anomalies can not be ignored indefinitely.

But a comprehensive theory of Andrew may require looking beyond the Cuomos entirely.

Einstein remained convinced until his death that quantum mechanics was only a steppingstone toward a deeper, more comprehensive theory that would make sense of the uncanny phenomena of the quantum world.

Although it may not offer a comprehensive theory of reality, he says, «it has ushered in the development of a new set of mathematical techniques that are useful in broad areas of physics.»

Their standard model is now neat and complete but it falls well short of a comprehensive theory of matter.

Even without a comprehensive theory to explain the variability of diabetes, researchers are making headway in discovering how the disease works.

But it wasn't until the 1960s that scientists put the pieces together in a comprehensive theory of plate tectonics.

Even now, six years after Chan and Kim's experiment was published, there is still no comprehensive theory of supersolidity.

A comprehensive theory that describes the process is still lacking

Their new computational approach is a major step towards developing a comprehensive theory of particle - based crystallization.

A comprehensive theory of obesity would not be so cavalier in discarding this valuable information.

Besides producing «Supreme» images, Malevich also developed a comprehensive theory of non-representational painting that would influence future generations of Abstract Expressionists, Minimalist and Conceptual Artists.

Time after time, the meager offerings of globally averaged temperature trends, vanishing arctic sea ice, shrinking glaciers, melting ice sheets, earlier springs, satellite analyses of upper tropospheric temperatures and a comprehensive theory supported by the massive computational power of sophisticated computer models have been dismissed, denied and rebutted one by one.

Scientists discovered the phenomenon in the 1970s, but a comprehensive theory for the MJO and a clear understanding of the role of the ocean in the disturbance have been elusive.

Merriam - Webster's definition is fairly straightforward — «The linking together of principles from different disciplines especially when forming a comprehensive theory.»

Grotius immediately set about preparing a treatise that would portray the Company's action in the context of a comprehensive theory of the law of prize.

Attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, self - regulation, and time: Toward a more comprehensive theory