The RRSG proposes an approach to assessment of reading comprehension that differs from current approaches in that it is based on an appropriately rich and
elaborate theory of reading comprehension.
Though Bergson did not develop
an elaborate theory of extensive abstraction, it is not surprising that he should have viewed Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, in which this theory is given its classic formulation, as «one of the most profound (works) ever «written on the philosophy of nature» (DS 62n).
Whitehead is here beginning to
elaborate a theory of awareness that gives the body its due with respect to the mechanics of perception.
Wang has
elaborated a theory of «avant - avant - garde art» in the Chinese context (which encompasses «avant - garde,» «post-avant-garde» and «metavant - garde»), as he explains in an essay entitled «Art in its Regional Political Context: Exhibition and Criticism» (published in A New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China: Critical Voices in Art and Aesthetics, [transcript] Verlag, 2014, pp. 131 - 142):
In 1935, his book
elaborating his theories of art, A Philosphy of Esthetics, was published, and in 1957, he completed his book Figure Drawing, published by Watson - Guptill.
A few groups pursued the study of possible mechanisms, for example
elaborating theories of how changes in the atmosphere's electric circuit, which varies with the flux of cosmic rays, affected precipitation in the Arctic, Ram et al. (2009), or devising experiments that they hoped would show a direct and strong effect of cosmic rays on clouds, e.g., Svensmark et al. (2007)(which brought a strong press reaction but proved little).
Not exact matches
Posner is distressed that so much
of contemporary legal scholarship
elaborates or relies upon diverse moral
theories that attempt, in highly abstract terms, to make normative claims about law.
At least it's a belief that's consistent with the facts and doesn't require an
elaborate web
of unsupported
theories and claims to justify it.
In point
of fact Christianity is an
elaborate web
of such
theories and claims, none
of which is supported by any objective evidence.
In nineteenth - century philosophies
elaborating the evolutionary
theory it appears as an overtone
of agnosticism, as in Herbert Spencer's reference to the Unknowable.5 Even in modernist theologies like that
of Shailer Mathews one senses this agnostic note accompanying the formulation
of its practical or functional rationale, as when he wrote,
The
theory of abstraction is
elaborated precisely in order to bridge the gap between an ontological world
of subsisting individuals and the epistemological world
of universals.
Hence, within the context
of the metaphysical
theory of the objective idealism, as
elaborated in «Realism and Idealism,» the term «a priori» receives a different meaning: a priori ideas function as abstract entities, as potentialities that are gradually actualized in the evolving reality.
Only when we understand the specific relationship between abstract entities, on the one hand, and material and mental entities on the other, as
elaborated in his
theory of objective idealism, does the true meaning
of the concluding chapter
of The Idea
of Nature become clear.
The first results
of these metaphysical inquiries can be found in the five books
of the manuscript «Notes towards a Metaphysic» (written from September 1933 till May 1934), in which he makes an endeavor to construct a cosmological - metaphysical system
of his own, 5 following the example
of Whitehead's and Alexander's description
of reality as a process, but based on his method
elaborated in An Essay on Philosophical Method, 6 and in «Sketch
of a Cosmological
Theory,» the first (never published) cosmology conclusion to The Idea
of Nature.
If the possibility
of the metaphysical project itself is not accepted, then the endeavor to
elaborate a metaphysical
theory does not seem to be very effective either.
Collingwood did not
elaborate a metaphysical system
of his own, making some tentative endeavors in the manuscripts, «Notes Towards a Metaphysics,» «Method and Metaphysics,» and «Sketch
of a Cosmological
Theory.»
Trained in logic, mathematics and positive sciences, his main intention was to bring philosophy once again in touch with the sciences
of his era (quantum mechanics, relativity
theory, non-mechanical biology) and to
elaborate a cosmological - metaphysical
theory on the basis
of the analysis
of their presuppositions.
Finally found the string
of blogs that
elaborate your Z -
Theory, David.
Critics such as the biochemist Robert Shapiro accuse the advocates
of Complexity
Theory of spinning an
elaborate tautological amplification
of the obvious: things are complex because the universe is complex.
Given the state
of our world today, with its extremes
of progress and poverty, it seems that modern economics so
elaborate and difficult to comprehend, so saturated with mathematical jargon and abstruse models and
theories, has failed to deliver the happiness it promised because it has failed to satisfy people's real, spiritual needs.
A French denier, Robert Faurisson, inaugurated these technical speculations, though it was Fred Leuchter, an American entrepreneur dealing in execution equipment for states with the death penalty, who provided Faurisson's
theories with
elaborate displays
of pseudoscientific «proof» in The Leuchter Report: The End
of a Myth: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Majdenek (1988).
In fact, if Hartshorne's solution can be said to surpass theirs in its explicitly psychicalist claim that God is somehow experienced not only by every human being but by every actual entity whatever, theirs can be said to go beyond his in its more fully
elaborated metaphysics
of knowledge or cognitional
theory.
Systems analysis,
elaborate simulation techniques, automated access to central data banks, information
theory, game Theory, and the use of socio - economic models, often mathematically stated, all aided and abetted by the computer, make possible a massive application of data not hitherto pos
theory, game
Theory, and the use of socio - economic models, often mathematically stated, all aided and abetted by the computer, make possible a massive application of data not hitherto pos
Theory, and the use
of socio - economic models, often mathematically stated, all aided and abetted by the computer, make possible a massive application
of data not hitherto possible.
There are many other points as well, in the conception
of God and in the general
theory of religion, where Cobb creatively
elaborates — and, on occasion, corrects — the contributions
of Whitehead toward an adequate natural theology.
Jencks» approach was given an
elaborate theoretical justification a few years later by John Rawls in A
Theory of Justice.
But I agree that all
of the
theories about structures
of human existence that I
elaborated in The Structure
of Christian Existence are in need
of further testing and refinement and that this is even more true with respect to my
theory of the structure
of Jesus» existence.
Islam, which best preserves the archaic elements
of Semitic thought, has
elaborated a very complete
theory of the real elite, in is «numbered peoples.»
What must be added are premises
elaborating a
theory which describes the behavior
of those parts in forming wholes.
Here practice refers not to the acquisition and application
of a technical skill, but to a complex pattern
of interaction by which people
elaborate structures and
theories of faithful life over time.
The notion
of an electromagnetic field propagating in a vacuum is meaningful precisely because it is part
of an
elaborate physical
theory which has numerous well - confirmed observable implications.
In an ambitious project to assess the correctness
of Talcott Parsons»
theory of evolutionary universals, Gary Buck accumulated masses
of data for 115 contemporary nation - states from every part
of the world.7 He developed
elaborate indices (as
of 1960 wherever possible)
of the ten variables Parsons discussed: (1) communication, (2) kinship organization, (3) religion, (4) technology, (5) stratification, (6) cultural legitimation, (7) bureaucratic organization, (8) money and market complex, (9) generalized universalistic norms, and (10) democratic association.8 Information was taken from such sources as the United Nations Statistical Yearbook, the Yearbook
of Labor Statistics, and UNESCO's World Survey
of Education.
Some researchers explain this wanton violence through «terror management
theory»: To buffer ourselves from fear
of death and reinforce our self - esteem and worldview, humans construct
elaborate and sometimes violent defense mechanisms.
Once there, Josselyn dreamed up an ingeniously
elaborate study with Silva to test their «neuronal competition»
theory of memory formation.
His
theory of natural selection, he realised, couldn't explain why the males
of some species have evolved such preposterous ornaments or why others have
elaborate armoury.
The effort to unify the views has resulted in a stream
of elaborate hypotheses positing worlds with multiple dimensions
of space, most notably string
theory and its successor, M -
theory.
«And a lot
of that is an intelligent numbers game» based on genetic
theories elaborated by Gregor Mendel more than a century ago.
While some scientists believe there was indeed an explosion
of diversity (the so - called punctuated equilibrium
theory elaborated by Nils Eldredge the late Stephen J. Gould - Models In Paleobiology, 1972), others believe that such rapid acceleration
of evolution is not possible; they posit that there was an extended period
of evolutionary progression
of all the animal groups, the evidence for which is lost in the all but nonexistent precambrian fossil record.
Recent, very expensive and
elaborate molecular dynamic
theories can now estimate the shape
of the hill, as well as how far it reaches into the oil.
Gardner's
theory of multiple intelligences (originally linguistic, logical - mathematical, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal) also
elaborated on the view
of human abilities as multidimensional.
She is known for her work to dismantle the sexist, racist and homophobic structure
of the art world, and seeks to
elaborate a queer, anti-racist, feminist history and
theory of modern and contemporary Euro - American visual arts.
She also
elaborates lots
of theories about lot
of things.
Oulipian poetic
theory ranged from the polemical language
of early manifestoes to
elaborate formulations
of a literary aesthetic based on algorithms and re-combinations.
Though the idea
of Duchamp perpetrating such an
elaborate (and quintessentially Duchampian) hoax is an appealing one, Shearer's
theory gained little traction within the academic community.
Since 1969 Giuseppe Penone has been one
of the leading representatives
of Arte Povera, the critical
theory elaborated by Germano Celant starting from 1967 and based on the work
of a number
of Italian artists, principally Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio.
Collishaw has created a zoetrope sculpture
of fluttering hummingbirds to illustrate the
theory that early human beings evolved art for the same reason hummingbirds evolved gorgeous feathers and
elaborate dances: to seduce the opposite sex.
The Bauhaus takes credit for
elaborating and advancing color
theory through the work and teachings
of Wassily Kandinsky, Johannes Itten and Josef Albers.
However else the original Surrealist Revolution failed for being so successfully subsumed into and sublimated by the mainstream media, it directly and positively was the foundation on which all subsequent aesthetic
theories and formal strategies
of mid - to late - twentieth century art were
elaborated.
Miskolczi
elaborated his
theory in a 2007 paper according to which the greenhouse gases collaborate by feedbacks to keep the IR transmittance
of the atmosphere constant.
They do not understand the case for AGW, they believe any piece
of non-science, such as Miskicolzci, they rant on about lunatic conspiracy
theories, they construct
elaborate straw man arguments, misrepresent the case put by the IPCC and indulge in frantic arm waving.
Some
of you guys seem to be subject to the same lack
of discrimination between Science and Scientific Method that I criticized in Steven Jay Gould back in Science 2000: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/287/5451/253.e-letters The Gould Standard Excerpt: Steven Jay Gould has constructed an
elaborate hand - waving argument in defense
of the Deconstructionist
Theory of the Intellectual Left.