Sentences with phrase «human observation as»

Such philosophy will be cut off from concrete reality as observed and invite idealism - unless we perversely treat science as so different from normal human observation as virtually not to come into this category.

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I think you are using observation to mean human senses and I use observation to mean any of our five senses or measuring tools created as an extension of those senses.

And finally, an important observation is furnished by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from ordinary human experience to religious experience and belief as a «breaking point» to which the human organism reacts in spontaneous outbursts, and in which rudimentary modes of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15

However, combine this with the irrefutable observation of humanity that would see human evil as universal in its scope, and combine this with the fact that the VAST majority of human beings disagreed with your interpretation of essential human goodness, and the force of the conviction steels itself.

I was using the news headlines (and other similar resources, such as charity reports and the like) to make the valid observation that human evil is universal in its effect and nature.

So, JUST from observation, even the «lovely» human beings constantly do much more evil than good, or even just act in compliance with evil systems as opposed to fighting for good.

That said, the case has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»

My own experience is that this same observation would apply as well to other walls, to the walls of fear and hatred and misunderstanding that we humans build between one another.

Thus, seemingly in order protect the validity of metaphysics, they have tried to depict scientific methodology as a radically different type of observation from normal human observation of the physical.

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.

The kind of phenomenological method which is often advocated is of a non-metaphysical type; that is, it is interested in description, in terms of how living religion, as a matter of deepest intuitive observation, effectively operates in human experience in the world where men live.

The constitution has been described as encouraging a shift from deductive to inductive methodology, in other words one based upon a developing understanding and observation of human nature.

A first flash of illumination, intuitively accepted despite the risk of error; and as the intuition was increasingly confirmed by observation and experiment, it came to be embodied in the inherited core of human consciousness.

Religious observations that call for an animal to be slaughtered are as out of date and foul as those calling for human sacrifice.

Based on observation, as scientists likes to say, are you not created in the likeness of your human parents?

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).

As often in these pages our Cutting Edge and Letters columns highlight approaches to science and religion which we think are at the heart of the modern crisis given the fundamental role of human observation of the physical realm to human thought.

John 6: 42), and the destiny of that figure — i.e. a human being and his fate, with a recognizable place in world history, and therefore exposed to the objective observation of the historian and intelligible within their context in world history — are not thus apprehended and understood as what they really are, namely, as the act of God, as the eschatological event.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

Western culture may be compared to a lake fed by the stream of Hellenism, Christianity, science, and these contributions might offer an extremely valuable way of considering the conceptions of a life of reason, the principle of an ordered and intelligible world, the ideas of faith, of a personal God, of the absolute value of the human individual, the method of observation and experiment, and the conception of empirical laws, as well as the doctrines of equality and of the brotherhood of man.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

As the founder of the EU's # 150 million Democracy & Human Rights programme, which finances all its election observation missions worldwide, I have seen polls in Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Palestine, Russia and many others.

The reports also identifies other challenges that impact sustained observations, such as the declining investment in new technological development, increasing difficulty in retaining and replenishing the human resources associated with sustained ocean observing, and a decreasing number of global and ocean - class research vessels.

The research concludes that for other changes, such as regional warming and sea ice changes, the observations over the satellite - era since 1979 are not yet long enough for the signal of human - induced climate change to be clearly separated from the strong natural variability in the region

More important, a convergence of observations suggests that cosmic neutrinos spring from the same astrophysical sources as other particles from space: highly energetic photons called gamma rays, and mysterious ultra-high energy cosmic rays — protons and heavier atomic nuclei that reach energies a million times higher than humans have achieved with particle accelerators.

This observation applied not only to simple organisms such as yeast, but also to more complex organisms such as humans.

But the humans didn't reward the birds for their help; in seven observations, they even went so far as to burn or bury the honeycomb, telling the researchers that they wanted to keep the birds «hungry» so the avian helpers would guide them to more hives.

However, this is difficult as many coastal areas have been modified by humans, so finding a truly natural habitat for observations of turtles is becoming increasingly difficult.

Legendary anthropologist Louis Leakey announced that because of Goodall's observations, «we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human.»

«Extensive traditional observations of individual traits and their relationship with leadership will be necessary for each specific group of animals or humans before this method could be used as an automated way to measure personality,» he says.

«Our observations are of great clinical importance since IL -6-directed therapies are increasingly being used or studied to treat various human autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus.»

Raichle's observation of patterns of ongoing brain activity when the subject is in a resting state, or when the brain is not actively engaged in performing tasks such as recalling events or learning new words, has transformed the way the human brain is now being studied in health and disease.

However there are widespread observations that under non-inflammatory conditions, human MSC are MHC - II negative, supporting a role for MSC as having reduced immunogenicity through the control of alloantigen expression 101, 102, 103.

Notably, the pattern of CSF peptides was similar at both time points and comparable to that observed in human CSF [50]; except for two observations: no Aβ37 was detected in the CSF of McGill transgenic rats at any time point and the Aβ38 signal was as strong as the Aβ40 signal, under these conditions.

These observations have highlighted their value as model organisms to study the etiology of human neurodevelopmental pathologies.

We've seen evolution via real - time observations and ordered series of fossils; evolution could be falsified by finding fossils out of place, such as that of a rabbit in 400 million - year - old sediments; and evolution certainly makes predictions (Darwin predicted, correctly, that human ancestors evolved in Africa).

«We're at the first point in our history as humans where we might actually have some observations from other planets that we can use to test any of these ideas about life beyond our own,» says Lenardic.

Over the last five years, the BAMS report has examined more than 100 events as part of a burgeoning sub-field of climate science that uses observations and climate models to show how human - caused warming has already affected the odds or severity of many of the weather extremes we experience now.

Such observations prompted us to use human NSCs expressing c - Myc, as a model to facilitate the generation of iPSCs and to study the reprogramming steps.

However, this may be linked to previous observations suggesting a higher presence of vegetative cells when Clostridium is located in the human gut as compared to soil environments, where the conditions are stressful [28].

This could have led to the headline — «Male mice given cancer cells get cancer», but it is being used as an explanation for the observations in the human study.

There is a distressing tendency among humans to look at one aspect of a person (such as personal politics) and assign ALL other views to that one observation.

As the eyeball is completed the frame begins a gut - wrenchingly slow zoom towards the artificial iris, the would - be window into the human soul, but under the circumstances and accompanied by Mica Levi's pulsing, otherworldly score the eyeball seems to glare back in an almost Orwellian fashion, thus setting the tone appropriately for this hypnotising observation piece.

The film, which kicks off Directors» Fortnight at this year's Cannes, initially feels as though it might possess Noah Baumbach's knack for human observation given its curious mix of Frances Ha's visual style and While We're Young's dynamic.

On the human side, Clarke and Keri Russell do well as the leaders of the observation group, as does Kodi Smit - McPhee, as a young man who spends his time sketching his new simian friends.

As a student of human nature and the world, Gervais is superb, and his skillful observations have produced some great stage and TV performances.

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The attitude of the UNHCR and international community as a whole towards Rwandan refugees leads Arendt's observation to be true: Refugees are without even basic human rights.

In the end (which is actually near the beginning of the manuscript), Goldhaber notes that VAMs are «distinct» as compared to classroom observations, because they offer «an objective measure that does not rely on human interpretation of teacher practices, and by design, [they offer] a system in which teachers are evaluated relative to one another rather than relative to an absolute standard (i.e., it creates a distribution in which teachers can be ranked).

Inconsistently applied observation and evaluation tools can undermine professional development and human capital systems as well as erode confidence and trust among teachers in building - level leadership.