Sentences with phrase «in empirical observation»

In an empirical observation of human activity and life, a la Hobbes, desire seems to know no end other than death.

Truth emerges in empirical observation, not in revelation.

Not exact matches

But one empirical observation: in the mid 1990's the Canadian government tightened fiscal policy a lot (for reasons unrelated to reducing aggregate demand), but the Bank of Canada managed to offset that fiscal tightening and keep inflation on target.

Science is the systematic acquisition and application of knowledge in the structure and behaviour of the physical universe gained via empirical evidence through observation, measurement and experimentation.

Although empirical observations of the world can be reduced to scientific propositions, their form in community discourse is narrational.

An inductive, empirical approach in a field such as anatomy would certainly demand more than that each new student start from scratch, with only such general observations as that people come with parts such as heads, thoraxes, loins, thighs, hearts, kidneys, spleens and an assortment of tubes.

Rather than working with a parsimonious specification of master trends, social laws, or correlations among variables, the analyst works with a complex set of concepts and empirical observations, piecing them together in ways that reveal underlying processes and interconnections.14

Thus, despite the fact that Wieman and others of similar persuasion found elements of Whitehead's philosophy congenial, and despite the fact that many others saw Wieman as a Whiteheadian, in retrospect one must conclude that Whitehead's influence on Wieman was very partial and that the influence of John Dewey, with a resultant emphasis on empirical observation and verification, was much more formative for Wieman's distinctively empirical and pragmatic theology.

In modern science the term «theory», or «scientific theory» refers to a given explanation, consistent with the scientific method, of empirical observation.

Nervously, I reminded him (Professor Albritton also taught Aristotle) that, based upon a rudimentary (and now recognized to be false) empirical observation, Aristotle and Aquinas thought that the stars in the firmament were unchangeable, permanent, and, thus in a special sense, «necessary beings,» different from all other changeable substances they had observed.

Schweitzer's ethical mysticism begins with a reflective observation of the finite world («I am urge - to - life»), moves to an empirical generalization («in the midst of other wills - to - live»), is made cosmic by an intuitive insight, which is the completing or mystical element of thought («all is part of a cosmic or universal will - to - live»), and returns to the finite for experiential verification in ethical participation («Ethics alone can put me in true relationship with the universe by my serving it, cooperating with it; not by trying to understand it... It is through community of life, not community of thought, that I abide in harmony... [«The Ethics of Reverence for Life,» Christendom, Vol.

The overwhelming empirical observations are in favor of God while manmade rules of logic established by the Greeks favor their philosophies which resulted in the monument to the unknown god.

Please list the «empirical observations» «of the promises of god as detailed in the bible» «happening every time without fail»

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).

In the absence of empirical data to support these claims, Mill simply appeals to his readers to make their own observations; he asserts that in doing so, they will recognize that pleasure or happiness is in fact the sole object of desire (U 49In the absence of empirical data to support these claims, Mill simply appeals to his readers to make their own observations; he asserts that in doing so, they will recognize that pleasure or happiness is in fact the sole object of desire (U 49in doing so, they will recognize that pleasure or happiness is in fact the sole object of desire (U 49in fact the sole object of desire (U 49).

Empirical observation confirms these conversions occur as Jesus stated and in accordance with his formula.

(Empirical observation) confirms these conversions occur as Jesus stated and in accordance with his formula.»

Ed, science considers evolution a theory in that it is a theory based on many, many instances of empirical observation of evolution at work.

But one observation is essential and irrefutable based on centuries of empirical evidence: In this fallen world, no other economic system leads to broadly distributed human flourishing remotely on the scale of capitalism.

There was no empirical observation of advancement of religion in this case for the simple reason that it was assumed from the outset.

That would be historically unique, and perhaps for that very reason historically false, for an invisible Christianity could be very much alive today, or one invisible by all orthodox and ecclesiastical criteria, but one nevertheless deeply alive in our depths, even if those depths are invisible to empirical observation.

I have made an observation that is not empirical: when a team has the # 1 pick, the improvement they exhibit in the following season is not huge.

But physicians in the empirical tradition, to which Aristotle was exposed by his physician father, learned how to predict the course of disease from observation.

From 14,722 parent - child observations, they have found strong empirical evidence that reliance on welfare in one generation is likely to cause greater welfare use in the next generation.

Concussion simulations that point to the corpus callosum are consistent with empirical observations — patients with concussions do often have damage in the corpus callosum.

The seven I focus on here — the wave equation, Maxwell's four equations, the Fourier transform and Schrödinger's equation — illustrate how empirical observations have led to equations that we use both in science and in everyday life.

As observation, intuition, empirical research, and a quick examination of the Department of Labor's occupational employment statistics [vi] will demonstrate, success in life depends on hard skills: the individual's capabilities in subject matter and tasks that are valued in society and are passed on through formal and informal instruction, e.g., being able to write computer code, or service heating and air conditioning equipment, or cook gourmet meals, or understand market derivatives.

In the second part we provide a theoretical justification of the empirical observations.

Still besides empirical observations and good inferences, the models are what are available to work with, and they serve several purposes quite well and they are the basis for improved models in the future.

In a paper in Geoscience Canada, Veizer (2005) states that «the multitude of empirical observations favours celestial phenomena as the most important driver of terrestrial climate on most time scales In a paper in Geoscience Canada, Veizer (2005) states that «the multitude of empirical observations favours celestial phenomena as the most important driver of terrestrial climate on most time scales in Geoscience Canada, Veizer (2005) states that «the multitude of empirical observations favours celestial phenomena as the most important driver of terrestrial climate on most time scales `.

We recently published a study in Scientific Reports titled Comparing the model - simulated global warming signal to observations using empirical estimates of unforced noise.

On the other hand, the alternate scenario — a non-zero «pre-eruption» aerosol burden — is both logically self - consistent, and in accord with empirical observations, as I showed by citing the Robock paper.

At the end of that piece, he quoted Richard Feynman concerning the empirical nature of the search for new scientific laws, and then closed with this assertion: «The most important component of climate science is careful, long - term observations of climate - related phenomena, from space, from land, and in the oceans.

Strawman, quote my words not what you imagine, I do not assume that — I repeat: From the way you have mangled my post in your replies I'm coming to the reluctant conclusion that you're either incapable of thinking to the standard required in science which is the ability to separate fact from fiction in the discipline of empirical observation and testing, or, you're deliberately distracting from the points I'm making in my argument.

So that in general, a model can describe either a physics - based behavior, or it could describe a heuristic based solely on the empirical observations.

The empirical observations made in atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets and on biosphere have been important in this process.

Fifth, even if real scientific investigation (which doesn't stop with modeling but tests models by empirical observation) could tell us that, say, falling 50 % short of net zero «carbon» emissions would raise GAT by, say, 3 ° C and that that, in turn, would cause significant harms, that wouldn't tell us how we ought to respond.

In the case of the CAGW claim (made by IPCC) there are no empirical data based on actual physical observations or reproducible experimentation to support this claim.

Personally I trust empirical observation over theoretical modeling, particularly in so complex a thing as the planet's climate.

In a optimal comparison of observations with a model every empirical value should have a weight that varies only based on empirical uncertainties in the particular value, not on it's closeness to either end of the full perioIn a optimal comparison of observations with a model every empirical value should have a weight that varies only based on empirical uncertainties in the particular value, not on it's closeness to either end of the full perioin the particular value, not on it's closeness to either end of the full period.

It is an empirical observation that SOL and MUL show regularities that are not at all apparent in DEC..

They challenge this on rather solid empirical grounds and with physical arguments and data analysis that is every bit as scientifically valid as that used to support larger estimates, often obtaining numbers that are in better agreement with observation.

It has been said that CAGW, as outlined by IPCC in its AR4 report, is impossible to falsify or corroborate with empirical scientific evidence from actual physical observations or reproducible experimentation.

As others have noted, the IPCC Team has gone absolutely feral about Salby's research and the most recent paper by Dr Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama (On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance), for one simple reason: both are based on empirical, undoctored satellite observations, which, depending on the measure required, now extend into the past by up to 32 years, i.e. long enough to begin evaluating real climate trends; whereas much of the Team's science in AR4 (2007) is based on primitive climate models generated from primitive and potentially unreliable land measurements and proxies, which have been «filtered» to achieve certain artificial realities (There are other more scathing descriptions of this process I won't use).

The discussion of the previous thread brought up in several comments the observation that the Figure 9.20 of WG1 might most appropriately be considered a representation of likelihood functions that describe the results of various studies based directly or indirectly on empirical data.

«Major improvements include updated and substantially more complete input data from the ICOADS Release 2.5, revised Empirical Orthogonal Teleconnections (EOTs) and EOT acceptance criterion, updated sea surface temperature (SST) quality control procedures, revised SST anomaly (SSTA) evaluation methods, revised low - frequency data filing in data sparse regions using nearby available observations, updated bias adjustments of ship SSTs using Hadley Nighttime Marine Air Temperature version 2 (HadNMAT2), and buoy SST bias adjustments not previously made in v3b.»

And it is this «empirical evidence» from past actual physical observations or past reproducible experimentation I have asked you in vain to cite.

No, Hoffman's observations aren't necessarily «scientific,» as in statistically significant empirical evidence.

R. Gates, I'm curious to know why you think a paper about what happens in models of sea level into the future is much better than (or even has much to do with) a critique of a paper analysing empirical observations over the recent past?

In a previous post, empirical observations documented the lack of both short - term and long - term warming of the atmosphere.