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.
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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 (p66
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 (p66
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 (p66
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 (p66
as 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.