Sentences with phrase «forms of observation»

As opposed to other forms of observation, this tool supported productive conversations regarding practices that transformed instruction, thus leading to student learning.

This rare event with its multiple forms of observation signals the beginning of multi-messenger astronomy.

Third, scientific reflection (in the form of observation and much speculation) on the nature of time itself also has profound implications on how man conceives of his reality as a succession of events (how man connects events in his reality)- interpreted as the passage of time - and whether those events are intrinsically connected, and, if so, whether or not such a connection is changeable.

With an improved and more consistent form of observation and feedback, these aspiring leaders are better able to help guide teachers toward improved teaching methods.

A pet with a vaccine reaction history should receive some special attention in the form of observation in the hospital and / or pre-treatment with anti-inflammatory medication as described above.

In an abrupt departure from the critically popular gestural work of Abstract Expressionism, Kelly pursued a highly finished art, one in which his refined canvases suggested not the hand of the artist, but rather the extracted forms of his observations of the physical world.

Through a progressive form of observation and experience, the knowledge of these methods is passed on and reaffirmed for each succeeding generation.

I am passionate about drawing as a form of observation but also have knowledge of scientific observational tools including: Electron Microscopy; Focused Ion Beam analysis; Stress Imaging Systems; Acoustic, Thermal and Electromagnetic Interface Scanners.

So I take it that if you accept that as my intended use of the word experiment implicitly included measurements which by definition need some form of observation then you agree with my initial post.

The notion, then that 9 - 11 was some kind of «inside job» may well have been the vulgar form of the observation that terror had become, not only a pretext for war, but also a pretext for aggressive domestic policies and a new role for the state.

Not exact matches

F.W. Cook also provided general observations about the Company's compensation programs, but it did not determine or recommend the amount or form of compensation for the named executive officers.

«I ask the Prime Minister, how is that statement and the creation of the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer in any way, shape or form compatible with the kind of cheap partisan attacks the Minister of Finance made against the Parliamentary Budget Officer and against his observation that the job of the Parliamentary Budget Officer was to be a sounding board for the government?

Deep observation must be done in steps: «If you wish to have a sound knowledge of the forms of objects, begin with the details of them, and do not go on to the second step until you have the first well fixed in memory.»

But what has always been true is that we were born with powers of making judgments, making observations and forming conclusions, and I think to let such a given power just sit rotting on a shelf somewhere is like not walking and letting perfectly good legs atrophy into useless attachments.

In turn he showed that repeated observation of the world around us organically develops our knowledge of the form or nature of things.

4) Teach them how to phrase an observation in the form of a question so that they are really asking no question at all.

This observation» a commonplace in rhetoric» becomes a problem the moment one seeks to move between imaginative prose and Scripture, which claims to offer truth unmediated by any form of metonymy.

In the following two chapters, I shall examine more precisely the various forms that parish stories assume and show how by observation and inquiry one can explore the setting of a congregation's narrative.

Although empirical observations of the world can be reduced to scientific propositions, their form in community discourse is narrational.

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.

But your taking offense at David's post included an appeal to some self evident form of faith based upon not just interpretation, but observation.

The authors spend a few pages puzzling over the form of religious clusters, and their observations can help us understand today's discontents and contentments.

However, there are clear observations which contradict special creation / co-existence of all forms followed by a single massive annihilation via flood, e.g. the progressive order of the fossil record, the Coconino sandstone, etc, etc..

Throughout the author utilizes Reinhold Niebuhr's theme of historical irony, frequently to good effect, as in his observation that Dorothy Day and her following represent a Catholic cooptation of a very Protestant form of protest associated with the tradition of Emerson and Thoreau.

Thinkers who have been more faithful to Thomistic Realism, with its a posteriori abstraction of the universal form, have rejected the idea that formality is a priori to observation in general but kept it as a priori to modern experimental observation.

Repeated observations leading to fine tuning of our descriptions was seen to base human inference more than abstracted «forms».

This observation, analysis and description of this form is something that is part of the science of physics and chemistry, not something excluded from them and relegated to an idealist realm, sanitarily excluded from scientific observation.

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.

The language may not be stirring, but the thought is a clear development of John Paul II's observations in his great social encyclical, Centesimus Annus:» [P] rior to the logic of a fair exchange of goods and the forms of justice appropriate to it, there exists something which is due to man because he is man, by reason of his lofty dignity» (35).

• «How can we quickly and progressively harmonise the proliferation of particular branches of study with the necessity of forming a synthesis of them, and of preserving among men the faculties of contemplation and observation which lead to wisdom?»

My empiricism is a liberal one in that I accept reflective observation or introspection as a form of immediate experience on a par with the outward looking form of sense - awareness which I describe.

This type of argument is again broadly evidentiary in nature, although it reflects not the «turn to the subject» characteristic of the appeal to individual experience, but rather a «pragmatic» or «linguistic» turn, as illustrated by Whitehead's observation that the evidence of human experience as shared by civilized intercommunication «is also diffused throughout the meanings of words and linguistic expressions» (cited in TPT 74).12 Such an appeal is an essentially historical form of argumentation.

Clifford Geertz uses a similar notion of «bodied stuff» to distinguish the object of culture analysis from the abstractions that form nomothetic observations (The Interpretation of Cultures, 23).

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

Further still, the nodes of PE divergence provide plenty of time for speciation events based on real time observation of these events in modern forms.

The beauty, though, of this season is that we are reminded of the context of Augustine's observation: the Gospel itself, that God not only formed us but also that He Himself came to dwell among us so that He Himself might bring rest (oration) to our hearts.

This observation, however could be premature with new forms of racism, mutating and evolving to fit the crowd and times.

They are not open to public observation or communal participation, except in the more Pentecostal forms of Christian worship.

The question with which these observations leave us is not whether we can continue to assume the supposed privileges of our historical form of establishment.

I do indeed stand on the distinction between a priori (or metaphysical) and empirical in the sense given this distinction by Popper, except that, whereas Popper defines empirical as «conceivably falsifiable by observation» and apparently limits observation to certain forms of human perception, I sometimes include divine perception (in Whitehead's language, God's physical prehensions).

But I can not leave the subject without relaying a few more of his scattered observations, some of them aphoristic in form, all of them suggestive, all of them worth thinking about, and some of them, to be sure, inviting vigorous argument.

Form criticism cut its teeth on just this kind of observation.

A careful observation of even the archaic forms of religion clearly discloses the function which Whitehead attributes to them.

Warner's observation that the Christian church would necessarily experience revolutionary change «should the present form of the family disappear» was prophetic.

Experimental knowledge is one very powerful form of disciplined observation upon which humans reflect and infer.

Buddha had given utterance to many wise observations, on all sorts of subjects, practical, moral, spiritual, or if he did not say all that is reported of him, and in the form in which they are now given, they were in his spirit, and the problem was how to get a hearing for them.

This consultation should include an onsite visit, observation of employees performing work tasks, review of OSHA forms, and talking with employees to determine how they are modifying equipment.

I must agree to the observation that the Gunners form are dip as the Gunners have suddenly become characterized with indiscipline on the field of play.

A few observations: A handful of names such as Olivia, Cora, and Amara for girls, various forms of Alexander and Jack for boys are favored in such a wide range of cities that they can truly be considered international favorites.

As a former journalist, he adds sharp observation to his own diaries, recorded during the 1980s and 1990s, which form the basis of this excellent book.