Sentences with phrase «general theories»

By analyzing and comparing these two organisms, we can make general theories about how the brain adapts its activity to modify actions.

The contortions introduced by Einstein's special and general theories make intervals in both space and time dependent on where we measure them from.

«Our results are in line with general theories on community assembly and invasion success,» explains Mark van Kleunen, the leader of the project.

By JEAN - CLAUDE CHESNAIS Demography is a science with few general theories, yet the two that dominate seem to be diametrically opposed.

The trouble with time started a century ago, when Einstein's special and general theories of relativity demolished the idea of time as a universal constant.

Be that as it may, the historian of religions feels more secure if he leaves to other disciplines — sociology, psychology, anthropology — the risk of syntheses or of general theories.

The second preconception, rather more implicit than overtly recognized, is that for «general theories» about religion it is more prudent to consult a sociologist, an anthropolgoist, a psychologist, a philosopher, or a theologian.

Times of crisis and heated debate can confuse clear thinking, or give salutary specificity to general theories.

Albert Einstein, German - born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and...

There is insufficient research to support any general theories about why transgender Americans disproportionately enlist.

British economist John Maynard Keynes published his revolutionary book «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money» in 1936, in the wake of the Great Depression.

Regardless of getting a late start and untraditional path, Einstein would go on to develop the general theory of relativity, one of two pillars of modern physics.

Einstein's most famous contribution to science, the general theory of relativity, was published in 1915.

«I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self - importance — to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes (each with his General Theory) or, even better, a scientist like Einstein» George Soros

«In 1915, he [Einstein] wrestled from nature his crowning glory, one of the most beautiful theories in all of science, the general theory of relativity.

The general theory is that by buying undervalued stocks, you can take advantage of discounts or bargains.

In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»

Generally speaking, stocks have been in a staircase - like uptrend for most of the more than 9 - year bull rally, so this general theory suggests that moving averages may be particularly powerful tools in the current market environment — if the market is indeed trending.

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity?

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity suggested a finite universe.

(For the conservative critics, that would be one more count against Rawls's general theory of justice and political morality.)

When ideas are considered to be a part of an existentially functioning framework of orientation for persons and groups — in Boulding's terms part of an image — they indeed can and do have the power attributed to them in a famous passage in J. M. Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

And what is more, such a general theory is essentially a Marxist - Leninist hand - me - down.

A. French (Cambridge: Harvard, 1979), 35; and Einstein's Relativity: The Special and General Theory, 15th ed., tr.

[17] Hawking, 46, notes that at the Big Bang moment «the density of the universe and the curvature of space - time would have been infinite,» yet «because mathematics can not really handle infinite numbers,... the general theory of relativity... itself breaks down.»

For a general theory of the world, the irreplaceable contribution of religious experience consists in the fact that it proceeds from the «super-normal experience of mankind in its moment of finest insight» (RM 31).

Every religion stands within the uniqueness of religious intuition (whereby intuitions also can contradict or have a only volatile character, without losing thereby the character of intuitions: cf. FR 38, PR 13, MT 50) and general theory about the nature of thing» (1LM49).

I expand Lakatos's work into a general theory of rationality in Explanation from Physics to Theology: An Essay in Rationality and Religion (New Haven: Yale Univ..

However, one receives the impression that systems theorists, including Laszlo, are more at ease in their manipulation of the conceptual apparatus of a general theory of systems.

But to try to develop some general theory of the narrative shape of human experience as a foundation for Christian theology seemed to him «first to put the cart before the horse and then cut the lines and pretend the vehicle is self - propelled.»

Read http://www.express.co.uk/news/science-technology/455880/Stephen-Hawking-says-there-is-no-such-thing-as-black-holes-Einstein-spinning-in-his-grave Absence of Black Holes means Stephen Hawking has finally accepted that there are serious problems with both Newton's perspective of Gravity & Einstein's General Theory of Relativity because both require Black Holes at the center of the galaxies.

I have indicated that Whitehead's general theory of experience emphasizes the fact that experiencing derives from physical, emotional data which are processive - relational.

There are several speeches on Goethe, two autobiographical books, two volumes of a projected four on a general theory of civilization, smaller tracts on atomic testing and world peace, a collection of sermons, numerous anthologies of his sayings, and a half dozen books and pamphlets on his experiences in Africa.

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity superceded Newton's Theory of Gravity because of observations of the orbits of Mercury.

Not, of course, that Catholics and Orthodox don't have problems, but at least they have more plausibly institutionalized the general theory expounded by Hauerwas.

If the above formula gives results which are discrepant with observation, it would be quite possible with my general theory of nature to adopt Einstein's formula, based upon his differential equations, for the determination of the gravitational field.

The other, deeper reason is the attempt to bring perception under the general theory of symbolism.

Unlike Hegel and Nietzsche then (and the general traditions which each may be seen to represent) Whitehead's general account of the relationship between mind and nature not only acknowledges the role of nature as a condition of mind (as the general theory of evolution demands), but it also recognizes the place of mind (or reason) in nature.

So any general theory of biology (which must include the concept of hierarchy) must thereby explain the origin, operation, reliability and persistence of these constraints which harness matter to perform coherent functions according to a hierarchical plan.

Black Holes are also constantly debated and hardly understood, it is a constant battle between the General Theory of Relativity & Quantum Physics / Mechanics regarding them, especially the destruction of the data encrypted in the «Wave Function» beyond the «Event Horizon» where even light can not escape.

However, it is clear that Einstein regarded the existence of such frames heuristically, and not as a factual existence, for he resumes the above quotation with the statement, «On the basis of the general theory of relativity, on the other hand, space as opposed to «what fills space,» which is dependent on the co-ordinates, has no separate existence» (RSGT 155).

There are many other points as well, in the conception of God and in the general theory of religion, where Cobb creatively elaborates — and, on occasion, corrects — the contributions of Whitehead toward an adequate natural theology.

Of course, the vengeance of such an assumption as I have ascribed to Whitehead is that it makes impossible the development of a general theory of relativity along the lines of Einstein's.

7 Whitehead never terms his theory «special» because, as I argue below, he develops no general theory analogous to Einstein's.

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, translated by Robert W. Lawson, fifteenth edition.

The resultant radical empiricism and pluralism involve then, not only a realism, but a general theory of reality.

The ancient tongues were but a small though important province in the realm which he explored tirelessly, testing his general theory of linguistic expression by an investigation not only of Indo - European and Semitic idioms but also of Basque and Hungarian, of American Indian languages, of Chinese and South Sea dialects.1 Visitors found the aged sage «pure and perfect like an ancient work of art.»

Indeed this dialectic, worked out in the context of Ricoeur's general theory of discourse in Interpretation Theory, underlies what the philosopher now tells us about understanding biblical texts.

The rest results from the failure to develop a general theory of immanence whereby one actuality could be recognized as being present objectively within the experience of another without thereby destroying its integrity as a distinct individual actuality.6 In contrast to Aristotle's dictum that one substance (i.e., actuality) can not be in another, Whitehead's philosophy is designed to show how this may be so.

There are important modifications in Whitehead's theory in his later, more metaphysical, writings; but these modifications only serve to emphasize that the development of such a theory remains a major task in his attempts at philosophical analysis (see especially chapters IV and VII in SMW and part IV in PR).1 In general, Whitehead constructs a theory that is reactionary in its analysis when compared with the theories of space - time structure in the special theory of relativity (STR) and in the general theory of relativity (GTR), 2 and that is in opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IV).