Sentences with phrase «descriptive rather»

In fact, geology has long functioned in significant measure as a descriptive rather than predictive science.

When we talk about how best to teach these things, however, we are being descriptive rather than just prescriptive.

Mapping the human connectome will rely on a descriptive rather than empirical approach to research, revitalizing classic debates of the value of induction versus deduction in the sciences.

Although the question of Whitehead's methodology is discussed, the presentation is generally descriptive rather than critical.

Let «damned» (damaged, damaging) be seen as a descriptive rather than a condemnation and judgment.

He is the only historian to date (so far as I am aware) prepared to use Newman's terms for these two groups («High and Dry» and «Peculiar») as simply descriptive rather than evaluative terms.

This, coincidentally, would remove a major criticism leveled against Whitehead: that his is essentially a descriptive rather than an explanatory metaphysics, adducing principles that apply (in contemporary modal jargon) to this actual, rather than generally to any possible, world.

He preferred descriptive rather than ontological terms, but he unconsciously used ontology (ontology can not be escaped).

Those who believe that God did order the wholesale slaughter of Canaanites, even if that is exactly what happened, seem to have never heard of the concept of such stories as being descriptive rather than prescriptive.

The aim of these lectures, then, is descriptive rather than apologetic.

The rabid interest around his film arose from his commitment to descriptive rather than prescriptive truth.

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Just wondering if these concerns of ours can be cast in ways that might turn up the descriptive aspect rather than the implied prescriptive or finger - wagging shock & awe?

But if there has always been a realm of finite actualities, and if the existence of such a realm (though not with any particular order) is as eternal and necessary as is the existence of God, then it also makes sense to think of eternally necessary principles descriptive of their possible relationships... [T] his correlation between freedom and intrinsic value is a necessary one, rather than a result of divine arbitrariness (PTE 711).

Scientific language, although often purporting to be fundamental, is actually descriptive of an already rather late and abstract realm of objects lending themselves to demarcation by the crisp logic of mathematics.

Dictionaries are written as descriptive uses of language (they find out what the majority of people use words to mean, and write it down), rather than prescriptive uses of language (ie some governing board or king or ruler deciding what a word means and telling us how we have to use it).

In attempting to clarify and assess critically the contribution of Thomas J. J. Altizer to theological discussion in our time, I shall employ a rather broad descriptive typology.

I'm just saying that your definition of religion, as I'm reading it, is a bit too personal and value - laden (that is, prescriptive rather than descriptive), and misses a lot of the actual data of religion because of this.

Economics as an academic discipline aims to be descriptive and analytic rather than historical and normative.

As he parses it, «under God» is not in any sense a current, efficacious act of religious devotion; it is rather a historically «descriptive phrase,» taking account of the attitudes and beliefs of our ancestors.

In How (Not) to Be Secular, I push back on Taylor at just those points where he moves from the descriptive to the normative (which are rare and rather parenthetical).

He says, «I am convinced it is best to regard the Old Testament's description of God's involvement in war as reflective of how people thought about God in a particular historical context — rather than as descriptive of what God actually said and did» (p. 118).

Since His love - in - operation is His essential nature — He is love, which is His «root - attribute», not aseity, as the older theology claimed — the other things said about Him (transcendence, immanence, omnipotence, omniscience, omni - presence, righteousness, etc.) are to be understood, as I have already argued earlier, as adverbially descriptive of His mode of being love rather than set up as separate or even as distinct attributions.

It does not designate one of the literary genres discussed in the first part of my presentation, but rather the totality of these genres inasmuch as they exercise a referential function that differs from the descriptive referential function of ordinary language and above all of scientific discourse.

Buchler's theory of perception and judgment articulates, in a descriptive sense, what is categorically distinctive of human nature, or rather for Buchler, human process.

It is prescriptive rather than descriptive.

Make sure to label all prepared food with descriptive language rather than simply a date.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

Because her training in India had led her to take a descriptive scientific approach rather than attempting to unravel how things work, Smith recalls, «I didn't know if she was actually going to make a scientist or not.»

In fact, the international classifications used to diagnose mental disorders are descriptive and explicitly «atheoretical» — to acknowledge our limited understanding and the need for empirical evidence rather than fanciful theory.

Body shape includes rather strange though descriptive names: inverted triangle, rectangle / banana, rounded / apple and triangle / pear.

These data allow a descriptive lay of the land, rather than an investigation of how access to special education and to these services varies systematically with demographics conditional on actual need.

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Of course, after many descriptive and impressive essays, they have got used to write during the years of education, where emotions are key elements of success in writing it is rather difficult for students to hide their own points of view and to present existing ones without adding some of personal emotions.

Note that the similar Spanish descriptive word «moro» indicates a bluish color rather than a shape.

There's no descriptive text or anything, rather the card is left deliberately blank so that you can roleplay the character if you so wish, mentally deciding what little quirks they might have.

Instead players will find that the catalog of resources they obtain are rather well organized and descriptive as to what those resources are for.

It was great to have this low - profile space to test out my writing at a time when I was trying to see what it was like to use descriptive clarity in text rather than pictures.

Because the wall captions, though fully descriptive of each new phase, don't explain the evolution of Stella's ideas, you move among his abruptly demarcated styles as between different artists, rather than following a single artist's succession of thoughts.

His works broach the psychological through a surreal and abstracted approach to the genre rather than taking a strictly descriptive method.

Krakow's language is not merely declarative or descriptive, but rather is visual and corporeal.

Rather, «their fabrication as multi-sheet «descriptive works» is dictated solely by the artists» intention to communicate as forcefully and efficiently as possible... the emotional residue of events and feelings, left on places and objects by time...».

Rather than simply giving each participating gallery a page in the book, the fair organizers have given a page to each artist, arranged alphabetically, including an image for each, biographical information, a descriptive text, a list of all galleries representing the artist, and select bibliographic and exhibition information.

Diebenkorn responded strongly to Matisse's thorough re-working of his paintings, partaking in a process that favors emerging forms rather than descriptive depiction.

In this way, Loving Love is clearly influenced by the brilliance of the desert, although its evocation is not descriptive but rather evocative of the open skies, desert dunes and the particular quality of light of Martin's adopted home.

These are not descriptive categories, but rather are leftist values.

Although following a rather descriptive path, it offers plenty of «pistes de refléxion» in the concluding section of each chapter and assembles a very helpful sample of legislative, jurisprudential and institutional developments in a well - chosen array of constitutional regimes of the EU and EU Member States.

Both studies were descriptive because their goal was to identify certain features of the writing rather than examine the relationship among variables.

Rather than to throw in the towel, UNCITRAL decided to redefine the Working Group's mandate to «elaborating a non-binding descriptive document reflecting elements of an ODR process, on which elements the Working Group had previously reached consensus, excluding the question of the nature of the final stage of the ODR process».