Sentences with phrase «from physical assumptions»

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The «assumption of simple location,» upon which classical physics was based, abstracts from an aspect of physical reality that must now be considered fundamental and not just accidental — time.

«14 Following the assumption of simple location, 15 the cosmology derived from Galileo, Newton and Descartes persistently views the objects isolated by scientific method as though they were the fundamental units of the physical world itself.

Invoking a neurological instance of Godel's incompleteness theorem, that a system is never self - explanatory but requires some causal explanation from outside, we need to state that the physical causal closure of the human being is an unjustified physicalist assumption.

Thus there is little hope for our recovering a feeling of truly belonging to the cosmos as long as we hold onto the assumptions about physical reality (such as the primacy of primary qualities and cognate assumptions) underlying scientism and materialism.5 For we will continue to have a gnawing suspicion that the real world is so different from our projections that we are still without a home in the universe as it runs on colorlessly and meaninglessly beneath our secondary and tertiary «subjective» projections.

(Because Wiltshire starts from a separate set of physical assumptions, his numbers are different from the now canonical 13.7 billion years for the age of the universe.)

It's also a positive sign that more consumers seem to be purchasing nonfiction, especially for juveniles; working under the assumption that a number of juvenile non-fiction titles may be school - related purchases, it might indicate that consumers are choosing to shop from their local physical book stores for their kids» book needs.

Genetic evidence suggests the common assumption (based on physical appearance) that the Husky is descended from the Wolf to be true: however the exact nature and time of the first breeding between feral Dogs and Wolves is unknown.

Since then, scientists have failed to find much physical evidence to support the report's assumptions, but that failure has not stemmed from any lack of taxpayer support of research that looks for such evidence.

The failure to find physical evidence that supports the Charney Report's assumptions does not stem from any lack of funding — from both governmental and private sources — in strong support for projects trying to find such evidence.

Thus, the concept of increasing CO2 is causing increasing sea level rise from polar ice melt embodies two assumptions that need to be established with physical evidence: 1) the extent to which increased CO2 will cause increased temperatures, assumptions or models do not suffice; and 2) the extent to which increased temperatures will cause Antarctic ice melt.

I think that when people need to resort to conditions 500 million years ago to «refute» present - day directly observable radiative effects from CO2 and other IR - active atmospheric species — backed by solid, lab - tested physical theory — that I'm not the one with a problem airly dismissing a priori «assumptions».

They combined simple energy balance considerations with a physical assumption for the way water vapour is transported, and separated the contributions of surface heating from solar radiation and from increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to obtain the two sensitivities.

What it reveals is silly assumptions that are galaxies away from describing the physical states of an immensely complex system.

Empirical data from recent studies based on actual physical observations have raised serious doubt concerning these feedback assumptions and the resulting 2xCO2 climate sensitivity.

«Fairly rigid categories and constrained assumptions about seeking behavior... arose over the centuries of modern librarianship both from world views of the dominant players and the constraints of physical documents.

The increase in Arizona auto insurance rates for senior citizens is due to the assumption by car coverage companies that older citizens suffer from diminished physical and mental capacities.

She works from the assumption that emotional, physical and spiritual healing are possible for individuals, couples and groups no matter how challenging the external circumstances may appear to be.