Sentences with phrase «in the thought experiment of»

But what significance is there in the thought experiment of holding precipitation fixed at its maximum 19th century value, given that other parts of that century were evidently no wetter than today?

If I've understood what he was saying in his thought experiment of model planet, and if my reading of ideal v real gases applicable in his thinking, then I'd say yes.

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The founders of Emerald Therapeutics, D.J. Kleinbaum and Brian Frezza, think it comes down to the difficulty of running experiments in the life sciences.

The results of the experiment would suggest that bird flu could potentially mutate to become transmittable between humans like the flu, a scary thought considering the human fatality rate from bird flu when contracted from birds was recorded as 60 percent in 2010.

In August 2010, nearly two years after conceiving of Bitcoin in a landmark white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto, the project's pseudonymous, as yet unidentified creator (or creators), proposed a thought experimenIn August 2010, nearly two years after conceiving of Bitcoin in a landmark white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto, the project's pseudonymous, as yet unidentified creator (or creators), proposed a thought experimenin a landmark white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto, the project's pseudonymous, as yet unidentified creator (or creators), proposed a thought experiment.

The results of this radical experiment are now in — Roberts has written about his experience in a long, thought - provoking piece for Outside magazine.

If you're curious to learn more of Roberts's takeaways from his extreme experiment in disconnection, New York magazine's Science of Us column also has a fascinating follow - up interview with him in which he delves into the impact of his sabbatical on family life, how long it takes your brain to stop thinking in tweets, and other insights.

A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people who were asked to think about the past were willing to pay more for products than those who were asked to think about new or future memories; another experiment showed an increased willingness to give more money to others after recalling a nostalgic event.

In the coming series of posts, I'll introduce you to scientists who believe fusion is on par with the development of nuclear power or sending men to the moon, and scientists who think these experiments are a dead - end.

He didn't respond to comment for this story, but on Tuesday said this on Twitter about the grand Disney Infinity experiment: «I'd like to think that we contributed to the legacy of Disney in some way and created memories for you, your friends and family w / our game.»

If there were no trading costs — possible in a thought experiment but not in the real world — an excellent strategy over the last few decades would have been buying shares at the last possible moment during regular trading hours and selling them methodically at the opening bell every day, Professor Gulen of Purdue said.

Our impression of the structure and parameters of such models as these is that the result of the thought experiment above — a rise in short - term rates in real terms of 1 per cent — looks broadly similar in terms of its bottom line effect on activity.

After moving through learning periods and subsequent investment in stock, bonds, real estate and P2P and I am experimenting with a small allocation of portfolio and would be curious to hear your thoughts.

The results of one previous Tuft & Needle experiment resulted in more than you might think.

With that in mind, Financial Times takes us upon a thought experiment into the new world (dominated mainly by startups) of P2P lending:

The theory behind it is simple: If Facebook has experimented on its users to find new and exciting ways to get us to use it in the way they'd prefer, we should also feel free to experiment on Facebook, and see if those experiments change how we think about what we share with one of the biggest repositories of human data in history.

It's just a thought experiment — I know there are all kinds of ins and outs not provided.

Let's try an experiment: I'd like readers who have not really heard the Beach Boys» SMiLE, their ambitious 60s album only recently «released» in a Brian Wilson - approved form, to listen to two of the most popular songs from it, and then let us know what they think in the comments section.

In their view, the American political experiment is liberal to its rotten core, and Baxter in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering societIn their view, the American political experiment is liberal to its rotten core, and Baxter in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering societin particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering societin fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering society.

you will need to provide more information for it to be at least one that others can draw some sort of logical conclusion from, either through specifics or some sort of generality which would account for the missing information in your thought experiment.

There is a great «experiment» in New Zealand called «Restorative Justice» which I think would help reduce the recidivism rate here in the US and cut back on the expenses of prisons.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

(I do not wish to underestimate the significance or validity of some of the carefully done experiments in para-psychology, involving such phenomena as precognition and thought transfer.

Neuhaus» «thought experiment,» an argument that echoes a similar line of reasoning found in von Balthasar's Dare We Hope «That All Men Be Saved?»

We've conducted a thought experiment in response to those questions and in this chapter it has yielded some elements of a utopian proposal about a theological school.

Though it may sound bizarre, engaging with fictional characters on a deep emotional level can be a sort of thought experiment in empathy, where we briefly step outside of our self - constructed glass boxes and engage with people who are both vastly different and the same on an intimate level.

The most important conclusion to emerge from this «queer mixture of hard data, soft data, thought experiments, and speculations» is that social policy can not afford to ignore what Edmund Burke called «the little platoon we belong to in society.»

In «Thoughts after Lambeth» Eliot wrote, «The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality.

Engaging in this kind of thought experiment is great, because it forces us to think about the physicality of the coming kingdom and helps us picture a world full of human creations rather than one of fluffy clouds and winged babies babies flying around.

They typically don't think that prayer and devotion can affect the outcome of scientific experiments so they can keep their religious beliefs separate from the ways in which they view the world working.

Naturally, I hope to persuade you of the wisdom of my own thought experiment; far more importantly, the experiment will have served its purpose if it stimulates and focuses fresh and continuing discussion of theological schooling by all of those who are involved in it, students and trustees, administrators and faculty.

I'm afraid I'm with Willard Quine in taking a dim view of thought experiments that for both theoretical and practical reasons seem utterly fantastical.

To sum up, I have suggested a few ideas — aspiration (understood as an «outflowing» of the spirit), openness, future - directed revelation, value experiments, objective worth, the mosaic of truth — that I think will be needed to revision Christianity and religious faith in a new axial period and perhaps may also help us find a way between secular drift and fundamentalist retrenchment.

(Yes, my empathy thought experiment includes a God but no afterlife — in order to isolate the meaning of belief in the afterlife separately.)

The power of the market model in the thinking of economists was dramatically indicated in their comments on the experiment.

In some cases — I think especially of George Santayana, John Dewey, and Henry Nelson Wieman the results of such experiments were exceedingly fruitful and, to my mind, are still deserving of the most serious consideration.

I had left behind the lackluster Judaism of my youth and had experimented with a variety of eastern practices and paths, but thought that I should revisit the Hebrew Bible to see if perhaps I might have missed something in my childhood.

My answer is that I do not think we are yet in a position to judge recent totalitarian experiments fairly: that is to say, to decide whether, all things considered, they have produced a greater degree of enslavement or a higher level of spiritual energy.

Try a thought experiment: Suppose that Russia were to undergo an ideological evolution somewhat like that of Western Europe in the 1950s, with nationalism fading as continental and global links multiply.

We're thinking of titling the book Mary, Martha, and Me: A Yearlong Experiment in Biblical Womanhood.

In particular, we need to pay attention to a few terms that will be of crucial importance for this thought experiment.

There's a famous thought experiment some Christians reference when discussing the challenge of faith in the face of doubt.

But a considerable number of such experiments would be of great value in furthering the perennial task of thinking - through once again what it means to «confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father».

Senses is normally the hearing (listening), seeing (reading), touching (feeling), tasting, smelling and those have a role in creating ones back mind to think and come out with a conclusion of an idea through which he becomes to find out and work out a way to personalize as your own experiment or experience.

In recent years I have experimented with different kinds of involvement in social issues — with limited success — and I have done some thinking about what form a new social gospel movement might takIn recent years I have experimented with different kinds of involvement in social issues — with limited success — and I have done some thinking about what form a new social gospel movement might takin social issues — with limited success — and I have done some thinking about what form a new social gospel movement might take.

The complication of permanent existence (and stability) of the whole body becomes a difficult condition in this thought experiment and it is from this that we must place limitations on its possible nature.

It is catholic thought in the service of better understanding of how the crisis came about, and it is Catholic thought proposing a different, more morally compelling, and more enduring idea of the democratic experiment.

In my comment a couple of days ago I went through a thought experiment concerning the third possibility above and arrived at the following — if existence just is, then it was not created (either from God or out of nothingness) and therefore it has always been here (remember I'm talking about all of existence, not a conceivably lesser object like the universe).

The puzzle of immortality is turned this way and that, as if it were an improbable fossil or a three - legged duck, its paradoxes unpacked with the playful logic of a thought experiment in time travel.

Hi Claire, lots of veg make awesome sauces — tomatoes are great because they're so saucy but I definitely think you could experiment with slow cooking and blitzing any veg in a pan with oil and seasoning — let me know how you get on!