Sentences with phrase «in a scientific context»

The words theory and hypothesis have specific meanings in a scientific context.

In the scientific context as in business, «risk» has a different meaning from the one it has in common usage.

But I'm no expert in its application in the scientific context.

In this case the ability to specify a scientific topic where Michel could at least argue a concensus exists using his own definition would at least show that he himself thought that the word had a meaningful use in a scientific context and that this wasn't merely an excercise in rhetoric.

His position looks like the one of Blaise Pascal, an author he liked to quote even in scientific contexts.

Yet, in many ways, academic science study — especially when it's complemented with work in an industrial setting — provides excellent preparation in the basic skills you need to practice — and to teach — enterprise in a scientific context.

Stan himself readily admits that he doesn't know the answer in a scientific context, and he agrees that more study is needed.

It would enshrine in law the idea of transparency, open communication, and protection for whistleblowers in a scientific context.

The first Rock Shocks Volcanic rock (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) is a rock formed from magma erupted from a volcano.

Regrettably «the amount of change we could apply in the future» isn't a «given» — at least not in a scientific context (it could perhaps be a tenet of faith in a religious or political context, but that is a different kind of debate).

This means that either the word «concensus» is meaningless in a scientific context, or your definition of «concensus» is not appropriate.

I find it interesting he was demonized and vilified (being attacked personally as arrogant, ignorant, naive, etc.) by fellow scientists for speaking his scientific mind here, is that they way some of you climatologists act in a scientific context?

In the scientific context more broadly, Google Scholar uses citations to rank and link content, while PageRank determines how we find the world's information based on a similar principle.

blitzed — «It is interesting that you say Global Warming is back to being a theory» The word theory is used in its scientific context.

The argument rests on a confusion between what «theory» means in informal usage and in a scientific context.

You don't know what theories are in a scientific context, you make an argument equivalent to «people can't take strides greater than ten feet, therefore it's impossible to run a marathon,» and you think that the lack of a full understanding about a particular hypothetical explanation is some kind of demonstration that science is an abject failure.

Or, in a scientific context, we may insist that the intense release of kinetic energy produces sufficient heat energy to ignite the combination of chemicals.

One mistake scientists commonly make is to «look to any sort of criticism as they would in a scientific context and try to answer every single question that comes their way, when sometimes those kinds of questions are just meant to distract or take time or create material that can be taken out of context later,» Halpern says.

UCS's analysis of the emails and the debate surrounding them aims to correct popular misconceptions about what the emails say, put them in scientific context and explain the importance of scientific integrity....

In the scientific context it means if it isn't this, then it is something else.

Although the lengthy span of no major hurricanes was quite unexpected and unusual for many weather observers, has that now somehow made the 2017 hurricane season «unusual» and «unprecedented» in the scientific context?