Sentences with phrase «general theory on»

Results of the design experiment thus potentially focused on changes in this particular teacher's practice, characteristics this teacher possessed that may have contributed to successful technology implementation, and the development of a general theory on the types of teacher knowledge necessary to teach successfully with technology.

In partnership with Fathi Namouni at the Côte d'Azur Observatory in France, Morais developed a general theory on retrograde co-orbitals and retrograde orbital resonance.

In economics, there is a general theory on when it is efficient for some region to have the same currency, the key word being Optimum Currency Area.

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

Not exact matches

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.

But there are woefully few books on the general subject of scandal, and for the age of Clinton and Spitzer — and, of course, Davidar and Hurd — Kipnis attempts to define a theory of scandal and map its psychodynamics.

The president last week attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Twitter over his refusal to corroborate a conspiracy theory that federal law enforcement was undermining Trump.

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.»

As used in science, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.

A fertile few have managed to find a way to take on board some of the new theories without jettisoning the deep structure of their position, but the general sense is one of weariness and deep loss.

Beyond this general education every educated person should push on to a specialism dominated by finer theory and subtler ideas — for one it may be Greek, another scientific theory, for another mathematics.

@Vic: «but I can tell you that things like the Big Bang, the Multiverse, etc. are theories at best, and the Theory of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are in a direct collision course when it comes to the Black Holes, and Gravity is the show stopper for a Unified Field Theory, and so on and so forth.»

As used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.

Since then, this conception of metaphysics has given way to one of metaphysics as the study of most basic or general presuppositions, and of the metaphysical argument as hypothetical in the manner of a scientific theory, but on a level of higher generality.

Einstein's General Relativity theory of how mass distorts time and space was only proven a few weeks ago, but we've been basing advancements on it for the last 80 years.

Later sections of the book, which are more accessible and engaging for the general reader, focus on Duns Scotus» Divine Command Theory (DCT).

In general, folk - theories are unsystematic accumulations of conventional wisdom on a particular topic; they may embody some truth but are as likely to embody much falsehood.

As a medical professional, one would think you'd understand that biological evolution, much like general relativity, quantum mechanics, the germ theory of disease, cell theory, plate tectonic theory, etc is a scientific theory and should be taught in science class based on the preponderance of evidence that backs it.

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.

Go read a book on evolutionary theory (and also look up the definition of «scientific theory» and how it defers from the general use of the word) and THEN come back here and make some comments.

When one fully realizes that economic theory places no value on personal relationships or human community, one understands why the policies that follow from the theory end up weakening such relationships and community in general.

What we have done here is (a) accept that mathematics arises from experience, (b) recognize that we can get a general idea of twoness from our experience, (c) accept constraints on our experience — what we can assert as existing and what we can construct — by accepting some formal system, in this case a system defining set theory, and (d) acknowledge that we can define precisely within that system what we mean by number, successor of a number and in the process twoness.

The rationale of sacrifice in general may of course throw some light on the theory of the atonement, but even so, what a primitive mythology it is, that a divine Being should become incarnate, and atone for the sins of men through his own blood!

Ecological views based on systems theory may be found in von Bertalanffy, Ludwig, General Systems Theory (New York: Braziller, theory may be found in von Bertalanffy, Ludwig, General Systems Theory (New York: Braziller, Theory (New York: Braziller, 1968).

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 155On 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 155on the other hand, space as opposed to «what fills space,» which is dependent on the co-ordinates, has no separate existence» (RSGT 155on 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.

In 1922, some nine years after Einstein had published his first paper on General Relativity, Whitehead was compelled by the differences he had with Einstein's view to come forward with his own work, The Principle of Relativity, in which he formulated a theory of gravitation more in keeping with his own philosophical outlook.

The development of cognition in general is conceived in Piaget's genetic theory as a reconstruction of earlier forms of cognitive organization with new means and on a new level; the best known example of this development is the transformation and reconstruction of sensori - motor activity schemata into symbolic - conceptual thinking operations.

«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.

You stated: «As used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.»

I once seized on these terms to ascribe a theory of nontemporal subjectivity to Whitehead.11 While in many ways I regard that essay as one of my best achievements, its general premise was wrongheaded.

A denominational survey on «Church Membership Trends,» reported to the 1976 General Assembly, showed that many of the popular theories for explaining membership losses were ill founded.

As a general remark, it is surprising to find a contemporary thinker relying on a theory of meaning as naively empirical as this.

12 Toward a General Theory of Human Judgment (1951)[TGT]; Nature and Judgment (1955)[NJ]; The Concept of Method (New York, Columbia University Press, 1961; hereafter, M; The Main of Light: On the Concept of Poetry (1974).

He states: «A good part of organic systems rely on self - organisation... that things click together... yet there is no general theory to explain how that happens.»

Physics, in particular, is noted for its ability to use inductive reasoning to posit universal laws such as Einstein's General Relativity, making the claim that experiments and observations on or from earth allow us to generalise a theory into universal law, i.e. a law of physics that we believe must hold everywhere in the universe because this is a law written into the fabric of the universe.

I had a theory that Washington was more religious than most people thought, but I was basing this only on his public, official statements as General and President.

would you put any weight on the opinion of the general public on the validity of String Theory for example.

This idea depends on developments in general systems theory, which views «all of nature and all of human activity as a hierarchically arranged structure of levels of interlocked subset systems in which the process of any particular subset system affects and is affected by other subset systems at its own level, as well as below or above it.»

When he wishes to offer a comparison, or propose a more general explanation of phenomena of Greek or Mediterranean religions, he consults a «Manual,» or pages through Frazer, or resorts to a current theory on the religion of the «primitives.»

Since then he has worked on various aspects of relativity and quantum theory at Cambridge, Hamburg, and the University of York and is the author of Elementary General Relativity.

Who would have thought it on AA, Anger, Extreme language directed at other blogging mates, conspiracy theories, prophecies of doom and a general air of depression and disillusionment because our club is supposedly in crisis?

But as of now, the parenting practices that are based on Attachment Theory, and the ever - growing body of research informed by it, are not well known by the general public.

I question the relevance of Keynes» general theory but, if my memory serves me correctly, those lectures on Keynes» treatise on money that I heard all those decades ago are highly pertinent.

Governing parties might well be on a hiding to nothing in Euro elections, but there is plenty of evidence that, theory at least, they can (often) bounce back before the next UK general election comes around.

I would be interested to know of any theories on how one of these two parties might blunder in this way by the next general election.

Michael Teye Nyaunu, who waded into the numerous theories on why the government lost the 2016 general elections, said the signal became obvious when President Mahama was made to go unopposed.

Marxist, in general refers to someone who studies, learns, analyses, accepts and acts according to a wide socio - economico - politico - philosophical range of ideas & theories that were introduced by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, mainly on their analysis of the capitalistic system and their introduction of scientific socialism & their analysis towards the communist society.

And it comes courtesy of researchers trying to work quantum theory into our current understanding of the universe, which is based on Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Those waves, predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity, stretched and compressed spacetime, traveling outward like ripples on a pond.