Sentences with phrase «hypothetical construct»

This means that general notions like those of the cosmological theory have to be tied to observable things or to hypothetical constructs which are measurable.

Science can not prove intuition, science can not prove alexander the great existed, or the hypothetical constructs like greed and guilt.

But the «Mendelian» genes beloved of evolutionary biologists are hypothetical constructs, thought of as determining some outward and visible feature of the organism.

Some have identified HSS» tri-level trophic model as a hypothetical construct because in the real world food webs are not so tidy and can have fewer or more than three levels.

Additionally, you would be making decisions with ten, twenty, thirty years in mind because you are not even allowed to make two dozen investment decisions under that hypothetical construct.

In either case, Copenhagen may well mark the beginning of the end of full - blooded climate alarmism, unless convincing evidence shows that the proposed positive feedback mechanisms on which the models, the IPCC and the whole climate change industry is built is real rather than just a hypothetical construct.