Sentences with phrase «for observation as»

The «hard» physical [empirical] sciences rely on the physical senses for observation as there methodology.

The objective of this course is to familiarize the student with the various techniques for observations as used in Astronomy.

I have used this game a lot and often use it for observations as most students can really engage in the game.

Models (aka theory) provide a bullsh*t test for observations as much as data is a bullsh*t test for observations.

We thank you for your observations as we use feedback to continue to improve in our effort to offer our guests the very best beach vacation experience possible.

Not exact matches

By focusing on the various skills — everything from observation and data gathering to analysis and reflection — Newnham and his colleagues developed a framework for teachers to use in their science classes, beginning as early as kindergarten.

Night optical / observation devices, or NODs as soldiers call them, are standard issue for most troops in the field these days.

«Cal / OSHA's regulations define a serious injury or illness as one that requires employee hospitalization for more than 24 hours for other than medical observation, or in which a part of the body is lost or permanent disfigurement occurs.»

Another significant observation is that the shaky financial position for some shale drillers also suggests that the downside risk to oil prices might not be as serious as once thought.

That said, as Coren himself points out, the column was based on observations and wasn't intended to have the same impact as a peer - reviewed study — the bare minimum for scientific evidence.

That observation is echoed by the Federal Reserve Board, which fielded its Enterprising and Informal Work Activity (EIWA) survey, which concluded that 36 percent of the adult population has undertaken informal paid work activity either as a complement to, or substitute for, more traditional work arrangements.

As somebody who's worked for about a dozen women and two dozen men (mostly editors), my observation is that the women, in general, were smarter, sharper, more reliable and, well, smarter.

It has been sitting in my cupboard for a couple weeks so I thought I may as well give it a go, I have been using it since Thursday and some of my observations and thoughts are below.

His observations prompted insights such as building the graphical user interface to look just like its real - world counterpart (a checkbook, for example), making it easy for people to use it.

«Middle Child Syndrome» is a psychological label for the empirical observation that middle children often do not receive as much parental attention as first and last - born siblings.

As for my sources, all of my textbooks from 1st - 6th grade and 9th - this yr (11 grade) have only strengthened my observations that America prospers when she is «one nation under God».

Ok well, lets think about this for a moment... The observation: I exsist, as well as you, and everything else.

As part of the reconciliation process, DM may amend the data so that mismatched observations are correctly accounted for in the system.

That observation resonated with me somewhat, though my parents gave me the «Peter and the Wolf» introduction to instruments as well, and while our house did not echo with the sounds of classical music (in fact, my mother is a country gospel singer - songwriter and radio personality), I did grow up with a moderate understanding of and appreciation for classical music.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, better known simply as Lord Acton, is most often remembered for his frequently quoted observation that «power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»

The point is you speak of things as FACT and then something changes by 14 BILLION YEARS in a distance of 347 miles from the Earth observation to Orbit, and you just say OH well that's science for ya.

If my observations are true, then the main aim of Hartshornean (and also Whiteheadian) metaphysics is not so much a search for truths about reality, as a redefinition of our basic notions of fact, truth, experience, and reality.

Today this apolitical avant - garde has found its ventriloquist and prophet in Marshall McLuhan, an author who admittedly lacks any analytical categories for the understanding of social processes, but whose confused books serve as a quarry of undigested observations for the media industry.

In legislative politics and, for that matter, in Court doctrine, nothing is forever — an observation that is, as I understand it, at the heart of Mr. Harris» argument.

If a person is violent and / or adamantly refuses to accept help, it may be necessary for the family to call the police who will transport him to a public psychiatric ward (in a county hospital) or to a mental hospital for observation, This is the least desirable method of getting the person to treatment, but it sometimes becomes necessary as a last resort.

Finally, the book lacks «form» itself: too often, the author merely acts as a conduit for the opinions of other scholars without drawing his observations together into a coherent conclusion.

It is because a particular moral action of an individual is not simply and solely identical with the observation of general principles, but as well as this involves something additional and proper to the particular instance, for which the individual as such must take moral responsibility.

Jewish people do tend to understand the sanctity of life for all people, but it does not seem (from my observation) that women and children are always shown the same respect as men.

My observation is simply this; for any person who is a believer out there, do you live the same as a puritan of the 1600's and if so why?

So, JUST from observation, even the «lovely» human beings constantly do much more evil than good, or even just act in compliance with evil systems as opposed to fighting for good.

Induction has been accused of many shortcomings, but the common denominator of the various criticisms leveled against it, from Popper to Kuhn to Feyerabend, is that belief in induction is responsible for a naive empiricism which views science as based on uninterpreted observation and direct verification of theories by the «facts.»

In a manner analogous to Aristotle's grounding of induction in «experience,» Whitehead is quite emphatic in stating that direct observation is incapable of serving as the springboard for arriving at the larger generalities.

Jacobs finds merit in Hegel's observation that the demand for neutrality generally means that the interpreter of a text should expound its meaning as if he, the interpreter, were dead.

I do not elsewhere «skewer» conservatives for their devotion to the founders» intentions because of its resemblance to the principle of sola scriptura — I note this mostly as a bemused observation — but because, apparently unlike Reilly, I do not subscribe to a «Great Man» view of historical agency and historiography in which the mens auctoris provides the definitive key to the meaning of texts or historical events.

Now, you can present the existence of a deity responsible for the creation of the universe as a hypothesis for the observation that the universe exists, but the whole point of a hypothesis is that you test it to see if it's accurate.

At one point, in what appears a clever lawyerlike play, Pagels discredits Augustine's doctrine of the literal fall of Adam and Eve with the observation that it is hopelessly unscientific, and as a historian she feels compelled to add that Augustine's great foe, Pelagius, would also have had no use for science.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

More disturbing are the observations of Jenny McCartney who points to the problematic nature of using the Irish Troubles as the basis for «triumph of the underdog» narratives.

Such an awareness is impossible if and so long as the other is for me the detached object of my contemplation or observation, for he will not thus yield his wholeness and its centre.

Yet as the cause of my disease was unknown, the medical staff insisted on keeping me at least a couple of days for observation.

This «impact» is not that which can be objectively observed by any subject, for in objective observation the activity of the object is actually thought of as part of a causal order in which nothing is really active of itself.

At the same time, each miracle is an occasion for profound theological observation on the part of the fourth evangelist, who recalls the words of Jesus himself as he testified to his relationship to God and also instructed his hearers as to their proper relationship to him as the son of God.

It is not surprising that the positivist finds in quantum physics support for his conviction that we should discard all model; and treat theories as mere calculational devices for correlating observations.

If observations as well as criteria are paradigm - dependent, there is no rational basis for choice among competing paradigms.

As one would expect, Nichols» theology is sound, precise, clearly argued, beautifully expressed, strewn with poignant connections and rich in insights, such as the observation that at the wedding feast at Cana, as the bridegroom fails to fulfil his traditional Palestinian - Jewish duty to provide wine, Jesus substitutes himself for the bridegroom (pp125 - 6); or the presentation of Christmas night as the dark night of our mystical unmaking and remaking (p66As one would expect, Nichols» theology is sound, precise, clearly argued, beautifully expressed, strewn with poignant connections and rich in insights, such as the observation that at the wedding feast at Cana, as the bridegroom fails to fulfil his traditional Palestinian - Jewish duty to provide wine, Jesus substitutes himself for the bridegroom (pp125 - 6); or the presentation of Christmas night as the dark night of our mystical unmaking and remaking (p66as the observation that at the wedding feast at Cana, as the bridegroom fails to fulfil his traditional Palestinian - Jewish duty to provide wine, Jesus substitutes himself for the bridegroom (pp125 - 6); or the presentation of Christmas night as the dark night of our mystical unmaking and remaking (p66as the bridegroom fails to fulfil his traditional Palestinian - Jewish duty to provide wine, Jesus substitutes himself for the bridegroom (pp125 - 6); or the presentation of Christmas night as the dark night of our mystical unmaking and remaking (p66as the dark night of our mystical unmaking and remaking (p66).

As McGrath reminds us, William Paley's Natural Theology (1802) set out a demonstration of the existence of God, based on observations of the natural world, that was highly influential in its day, and for many years afterwards.

Thus, despite the fact that Wieman and others of similar persuasion found elements of Whitehead's philosophy congenial, and despite the fact that many others saw Wieman as a Whiteheadian, in retrospect one must conclude that Whitehead's influence on Wieman was very partial and that the influence of John Dewey, with a resultant emphasis on empirical observation and verification, was much more formative for Wieman's distinctively empirical and pragmatic theology.

It follows, for both James and Henry as it does for their sister in her best work, that our behavior with people close by is the true field of «morality,» and that happiness and well - being in life depend on the need for self - observation or clear insight into the self.

I remember when American Indians in various penal systems began suing for the right to wear their hair long as an established religious observation and they won.

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.