Sentences with phrase «heuristic field»

Biology can be designated as a science logically distinct from physics and chemistry because its heuristic field is constituted by questions directed toward whole organisms (plants and animals), cells and their «achievements» rather than toward atoms and molecules as such.

The heuristic field is narrowed down; and a return is then seldom made to the question of what life is as we spontaneously recognize it in the achievements of animals and cells.

Not exact matches

One very important heuristic maxim which Dr. Whitehead and I found, by experience, to be applicable in mathematical logic, and have since applied in various other fields, is a form of Ockham's razor.

We face at once the heuristic paradox, if fields as diverse as, say, geometry and number theory might be flattened by logicism into the same essential activity, how is it that we sense them as diverse in the first place?

That is why, forty years after the initial Assessment was rendered as to the severity of the Greenhouse Situation, for President Carter by the Academy of Sciences, as computers have evolved from the Stone Age to the i - phone, and despite @ least a thousand-fold more time on task with both field and heuristic climatic studies, the original uncertainties between the Two sides to the Tug of War, that is, PLUS 50 % OR MINUS 50 %, have not wavered much.

The underlying theory ieThat a redistribution of mass in an adiabatic system becomes energetically favored in a gravitational field (eg velocity increases) is well described in the literature eg Landau — Lifshitz, The application of heuristic arguments to phenomenological equations (of which all fluid equations are) is a limiting constraint on ALL experiments in fluid mechanics ie Do not ask too much from the equations (Gallavotti)

Lukovich et al. (Centre for Earth Observation Science, U. of Manitoba); 4.4 to 4.5; Heuristic - Dynamics The absence of a strong and persistent sea level pressure high over the Beaufort in July together with the absence of spatial homogeneity in the springtime sea ice drift fields suggest that continued sea ice decline will be an artifact of increased temperatures and thermodynamic forcing rather than the considerable dynamical contributions seen in summer of 2007.