Sentences with phrase «empirical support in»

Read more about the ABFT model, its theoretical foundations and empirical support in Family Process [PDF].

To address this, EFT provides a multi-step approach that has demonstrated empirical support in resolving attachment injuries and moving couples toward healing.

So I do think the idea of initial conditions «setting» some relatively permanent differences has some empirical support in some species for some things.

Re # 38 «NONE OF THE CURVES SHOWN HAVE ANY EMPIRICAL SUPPORT IN THE REAL WORLD» so, just to be clear, you're saying you can't say ANYTHING about past temperatures?

Sheesh, if he can't manage to comprehend the fact that NONE OF THE CURVES SHOWN HAVE ANY EMPIRICAL SUPPORT IN THE REAL WORLD, then he's never going to.

God's supraluminal influence on worldly events may be finding empirical supports in addition to its metaphysical necessity.

Not exact matches

The commonplace argument that increases in the volume of immigration, by themselves, lower wages and take jobs from Americans - an argument which Attorney General Jeff Sessions used to defend ending DACA - has neither empirical nor theoretical support in economics.

This is the result of many erroneous assumptions in the theory that the empirical data simply doesn't support.

(disclosure — I teach these courses in my school and the students are required to research and ID empirical data from OECD, IMF, Bloomberg, Capital IQ etc. to support their arguments).

This approach is not only supported by academic research; it is firmly rooted in empirical evidence.

I lack a belief in a god or gods because there is simply NO empirical evidence to support such a claim — for YOUR version or anyone else's.

Normally, I wouldn't follow this type of thread, but your inability to concede the difference between actual knowledge and faith founded in the absence of empirical supporting evidence is both perplexing and frustrating.

Wieman believed that the consequent nature of God had been «added on like dome and spire» — lacking both empirical support and practical value in the search for the sources of human good.

This is where Hartshorne could, and in some implicit ways does, drive a wedge in Brightman's view, because Brightman is willing as a point of method to collapse metaphysical questions into epistemological questions.29 Hartshorne is not so willing, and thinks personalism must employ both inductive (empirical) and transcendental argumentation to support its own claims.

Because last I checked there was still not a single shred of tangible, measurable, empirical evidence in support of any form of Theism, let alone something as backwards, corrupt, and atrocious, morally reprehensible (historically), and specific as Catholicism, which isn't even a very accurate form of Christianity when compared to the oldest Biblical scripts we've yet found.

Symbolization and magic go hand in hand and remain associated quite independently of the empirical evidence supporting the claimed power.

But in the very early stages the enthusiasts for a new paradigm may have little empirical support to offer, while the traditionalists may have many solved problems to their credit, despite unresolved anomalies.

Edward C. Greene, Director of the Harvard School of Public Health, wrote bravely in The Washington Post that «in truth, current empirical evidence supports him».

Once belief in God is supported in terms of «empirical fit,» it is legitimate to expand concepts relating to God in terms of models derived from interpersonal relations.

[8][9][10][11] Intelligent design is seen as a pseudoscience in the scientific community, because it lacks empirical support, supplies no tentative hypotheses, and resolves to describe natural history in terms of scientifically untestable supernatural causes.

At least this was the argument, and some empirical research has supported it, although the final verdict is by no means in.13.

While it is impossible to prove a negative, the complete lack of empirical evidence to support belief in any God and the self - professed reliance on belief (faith) rather than knowledge combined with a rigid and irrational unwillingness to apply basic logic with regards to these particular beliefs strongly suggests that God does not exist.

In the absence of empirical data to support these claims, Mill simply appeals to his readers to make their own observations; he asserts that in doing so, they will recognize that pleasure or happiness is in fact the sole object of desire (U 49In the absence of empirical data to support these claims, Mill simply appeals to his readers to make their own observations; he asserts that in doing so, they will recognize that pleasure or happiness is in fact the sole object of desire (U 49in doing so, they will recognize that pleasure or happiness is in fact the sole object of desire (U 49in fact the sole object of desire (U 49).

As noted, the majority of the audience of religious television programs are people who are already actively involved in a local church and there is therefore little empirical evidence to support the contention that religious programs on television are «draining people out of the local churches.»

At this point Whitehead produces his oft - cited statement about empirical support «both from the evidence for peculiar instances of telepathy, and from the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary social intercourse» (PR 469).

All appeals to empirical evidence, that is, to contingent facts, whether in support of belief in God or in opposition to such belief, make this mistake.

Dr. Webbe: I don't think that there is any empirical support for limiting heading in practice and having no restriction in games.

Dr. Kraepelin excelled in empirical research and preferred experiment psychological approaches, and he did not follow or support psycho - analysis.

Olsen concluded in 1997 that, «No empirical evidence exists to support the view it is less safe for most low - risk women to plan a home birth.»

Indeed, the empirical evidence clearly supports the conclusion that people who receive «economic life support» in the form of substantial gifts and inheritance become much less economically productive than comparable individuals who do not receive substantial gifts and inheritances.

There might be an empirical question of whether such a move had broad support within a party; but in a case where it did so, the freedom of association idea would surely support their choosing to invite outsiders to participate in various ways.

The empirical record suggests, he argues, that the role of social media in supporting and maintaining political opposition should not be underestimated, concluding that regimes have learned the hard way about how power social media networks can be used against the state apparatus.

Free Market Fairness is largely innocent of serious empirical inquiry into market societies and how they work, but there is in fact strong empirical support for the story about Amy.

The possibility of «expansionary fiscal contraction» — basically GDP growth in the midst of cuts — did get some empirical support from a 2009 paper by US - based economists Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna.

Discussing a wide range of ideas and empirical studies that support them, West - Eberhard focuses on showing what recent findings in development, physiology, and behavior suggest about the origins of evolutionary novelties.

While reduced vegetation cover and soil disturbance can make more sediment available for emission in dust storms, the researchers say, the widely reported link between the storm and the fighting in Syria was untested and lacked empirical support.

Anthropologist William Y. Adams, a professor emeritus at the University of Kentucky and a respected world figure in Nubiology, thinks Kendall has yet to collect enough empirical evidence to fully support his «interpretation of the mountain and its symbolism.»

These results suggest that without valid population - level data, speculations regarding the role of energy intake in the rise in the prevalence of obesity are without empirical support, he said.

«That said, to the extent that the march organizers maintain their emphasis on a positive and apolitical message regarding empirical science and its role in decision making, I expect that, at a minimum, ASPB will support the participation of its members in the march.»

The validity of the results was supported by the high correlation between the empirical results of total drag on the skier mannequin in a wind tunnel and corresponding data in the computer simulations.

That such a lake can even exist lends empirical support to a seemingly blue - sky proposal: Inject excess atmospheric CO2 deep into the ocean, where the high pressure would trap the gas in a liquid form.

At one such meeting, several of the firefighters — all of them in happy, long - term marriages — asked if there was any empirical evidence to support this long - held idea.

We show that both capacities become functional between the ages of 3 and 5 years, which provides empirical support for the contention that deep conceptual structures play an important role in cognitive development.

Amazingly, there is virtually no empirical evidence to support the use of illustrations in teaching reading.

Research in support of this hypothesis, theoretical and empirical, has focused on the possible kindred advantages of post-reproductive life and if such contributions are sufficient to explain the maintenance of menopause [2], [40], [53]--[58], as they would have to overcome the twofold cost for a grandmother to raise each grandchild rather than one of her own.

«Collectively, this work fills a gap in our understanding of how ploidy impacts adaptation, and provides empirical support for the hypothesis that diploid populations have altered access to beneficial mutations,» says Marad.

... [T] he significant correlations as well as similar atmospheric circulation patterns might provide empirical support for a solar influence on hydroclimate extremes in central Europe during spring and summer by the so - called solar top - down mechanism.

Our findings add empirical support to the contribution of low - frequency variants in complex traits, demonstrate the advantage of including population - specific sequences in imputation panels and exemplify the power gains afforded by population isolates.

This hypothesis has empirical support and presently attracts considerable attention, but notably it does not provide predictions for individual differences in (a) behavioral plasticity or (b) unexplained variation (residual variation from mean individual behavior, here termed predictability).

Offering support for their new perspective, the predictions of the analytical model are compared with empirical measurements from two different sources and found to be in agreement.