I will agree with CJAs point that Catholics do in general accept
the established theories of science as God's plan for the ordering of the world.
If Plato did not do this it is because, in his time, no one had any well
established theory of the ever - active atoms which Epicurus shrewdly guessed make up both organic and «inorganic» parts of nature.
French mathematician Yves Meyer has won the 2017 Abel Prize for his «pivotal role» in
establishing the theory of wavelets — data - analysis tools used in everything from pinpointing gravitational waves to compressing digital films.
Cahn went on to
establish another theory of material behavior, known as the theory of three - dimensional spinodal decomposition, which has helped others develop better - performing metals, glass, polymers, and thermal materials with unique properties.
Worse, Lentini says, many investigators set out trying to prove
an established theory of the crime, rather than ruling out hypotheses with the help of models and experiments, as Torero does.
«In East Asia there are long
established theories of how Neolithic populations changed the landscape so profoundly that monsoons stopped penetrating so far inland,» explains Wright, also noting in his paper that evidence of human - driven ecological and climatic change has been documented in Europe, North America and New Zealand.
With so little in common with the familiar Solar System planets, these newcomers [extrasolar planets] spell the end for
established theories of planet formation.11
As one astronomer wrote, these newly discovered planets «spell the end for
established theories of planet formation.»
She was struck by the master's willingness to go against
the established theories of Neo-Plasticism.
«In East Asia there are long
established theories of how Neolithic populations changed the landscape so profoundly that monsoons stopped penetrating so far inland,» explains Wright, also noting in his paper that evidence of human - driven ecological and climatic change has been documented in Europe, North America and New Zealand.
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The program is based on well -
established theories of behavioural change including social learning theory and the social - neurobiological factors involved in child self - regulation.
Infant intersubjectivity is a well -
established theory of how infants learn about self, others, and the world, and its relevance in how older children re-learn such fundamental psychological realities when their original learning was embedded in experiences of abuse and neglect is also worth serious consideration by those who provide treatment to such children.
Not exact matches
«It seemed a plausible assumption that if we could demonstrate the existence in individuals or organizations
of the ability to foretell the elusive fluctuations, either
of particular stocks, or
of stocks in general, this might lead to the identification
of economic
theories or statistical practices whose soundness had been
established by successful prediction.»
The idea that psychology drives stock market movements flies in the face
of established theories that advocate the notion that markets are efficient.
As a result, many studies have failed to
establish the reliability
of this
theory, and it should therefore only be used in conjunction with other methods, not alone.
This applies to game
theory in the group thought that
establishes the commonality, «If I have a black - hat link profile and my competitor has a black - hat link profile, we can only all go down in flames, so likely none
of us will».
In
theory, the EU could swiftly introduce additional tariffs on «certain imports» from the US But in reality, it would take weeks because the European Commission needs to notify the World Trade Organization it is going to impose restrictions and
establish the list
of goods and services on which the measures will be applied.
Yet if Feyerabend is correct, and an unpopular new
theory can ignore or reject experimental data long enough to get its footing, how much longer can an old and creaky
theory, buttressed by the reputations and influence and political power
of hundreds
of established practitioners, continue to hang in the air even when the results upon which it is premised are exposed as false?
I use the term
theory as a well -
established scientific concept based on multiple lines
of evidence (as stated in a previous post).
Also, the field
of science has a tendency to
establish theory as fact even when they can't agree on most
of its own principles.
But the Bible clearly
establishes that nothing
of the sort occurred (for evolution is a mindless
theory).
Having
established his core argument, and its foundations in natural law
theory, Duddington proceeds to a series
of practical discussions
of the way in which Christianity can be mobilised in order to shed light on difficult contemporary political issues.
Relativity
theory showed that the
established notions
of time and space must be radically rethought.
In our recent history, the most influential quasi-Kantian effort to
establish a moral basis for democracy is John Rawls» A
Theory of Justice.
BTW Copernicus barely had any data to
establish his «hypothesis», what I speak
of are current
theories and there is a BIG difference.
He applied his own
theory about justification as
establishing a covenant
of grace to the marriage union, and argued that «God draws a husband and wife into a covenant relationship with each other.»
In the field
of biology, evolution may be «just» a
theory (as some politicians painfully point out), but it is the
theory subscribed to, for good reason, by every real scientist in every
established university in the Western world.
In science, the word
theory refers to a well - supported, well -
established framework for understanding a set
of observations (e.g., the
theory of gravity, the
theory of relativity, germ
theory, etc).
In contrast with this ideal
of democracy
established in common dedication to a given order
of worth and excellence is another concept
of democracy growing out
of the interest, or satisfaction,
theory of value.
Darwin continually emphasized the difference between his two great and separate accomplishments:
establishing the fact
of evolution, and proposing a
theory — natural selection — to explain the mechanism
of evolution.
The core
of this chapter on «The
Theory of Feelings» (III.1) seems to be the analysis
of the first three categoreal conditions (1.4 - 7), prefaced by the pivotal section in
establishing the shift from datum to data as the starting point
of concrescence.
The
theory that human beings in pursuit
of their own interests will automatically
establish a harmonious society, provided everyone has an equal voice in political affairs, is no more true than the corresponding thesis in economic affairs.
The
theory that each occasion creates itself by realizing an aim internal to it, however, requires that the germ
of this aim be initially
established at that spot in the temporal world by God; otherwise the occasion's self - creation could never commence, since nothing can come from nowhere.
Neither should we choose any
of the numerous works in which Whitehead
establishes mathematics as derivative from the abstract
theory of classes or intuitive set
theory, because in these works he acknowledges the paradoxes in set
theory that drove him to affirm for a time Russell's logistic thesis that mathematics is the «science concerned with the logical deduction
of consequences from the general premises
of all reasoning» (MAT 291).
Again, according to his
theory of causality that
establishes that a substance has at least as much reality as its effect, his idea
of God can not be more perfect than God, who, as the cause, must surely exist.
We can thus work from the side
of theory to
establish relevance to practice.
It may be possible to develop these and similar lines
of thought to
establish what for brevity's sake I will call a self - generated or psychological
theory of the disciples» belief that their leader was in some sense still alive and present with them.
Deontological and utilitarian
theories can be seen as different versions
of an ethics
of duty wherein one is supposed to have a disposition to choose for the sake
of what is antecedently
established as right.
Where the magisterium does not reject a secular doctrine as directly or indirectly opposed to Revelation, it can only note the degree
of probability attributed to the
theory by secular science, state this and take it into account for the purpose
of its own reflections, but can not
establish and pronounce upon it.
Gardner lists five ways in which these paranoid tendencies manifest themselves: (1) the pseudo-scientist considers himself a genius and (2) regards his colleagues as ignorant blockheads; (3) he believes himself unjustly persecuted and discriminated against; (4) he focuses his attacks on the greatest scientists and the best -
established theories; and (5) he often employs a complex jargon and in many cases coins words and phrases (neologisms)
of his own.
A highly competent and generally successful study, Hall's work attempts to
establish the fundamental connection between Whitehead's cosmology and sociology by utilizing the «primary analogate» (root metaphor) approach to interpret Whitehead's speculative metaphysical scheme in the context
of his
theory of culture.
The reason why it is still a scientific
theory is because it has never been disproved by a single contrary result
of well -
established data.
The source
of these difficulties, I believe, is his
theory of analogy, the attempt, in connection with his neoclassical
theory of religious language, to
establish a third stratum
of meaning, or set
of concepts and terms, distinct both from the set
of plainly formal, strictly literal concepts and terms, on the one hand, and from the set
of plainly material, merely symbolic or metaphorical concepts and terms, on the other.
A
theory in its technical usage is something that is more or less verified or an
established explanation accounting for known facts or observations, like the
theory of relativity or how evolutionary biology is a
theory.
Definitions The noun,
theory has two main classes
of definitions for our consideration within the English language, something that is concrete and well -
established and something that is speculative, like a hypothesis.
But that is inconsistent with the
theory itself which says that physical laws were beginning to be
established AFTER the first unit
of Planck time (a minuscule fraction
of a second AFTER the big bang).
Big Bang
Theory, Theory of Evolution So let me EDUCATE you all: THEORY: «a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well - established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.&
Theory,
Theory of Evolution So let me EDUCATE you all: THEORY: «a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well - established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.&
Theory of Evolution So let me EDUCATE you all:
THEORY: «a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well - established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.&
THEORY: «a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well -
established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters
of actual fact.»
We do not need to construct a qeneral
theory of civil society in the context
of contemporary political philosophy: that could lead to an endless discussion
of different positions and the myriad attempts in the with the practical question
of the role
of Christian communities in attempts to refurbish, or newly
establish, participatory democratic societies across the globe.
The second condition, coherence, is that the thought should be consistent with an
established system
of theories and generally accepted beliefs.2 Coherence, as I take it, is consistency or fittingness with more relations and a set
of consequences.