Sentences with phrase «isolated systems of ideas»

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His analysis of the idea of molecular structure from «first principles» shows that if one starts from a description of the molecule as an isolated, dynamical system consisting of the number of electrons and nuclei implied by the stoichiometric formula that interact via electromagnetic forces, one can not even calculate the most important parameters in chemistry, namely, those that describe the molecular structure.8

Previously, the idea was of Earth as a sort of isolated system on which processes evolved.

Because the eye is «immune - privileged» — relatively isolated from the body's immune system — such a response was considered less likely than in other parts of the body, but the idea needed to be tested in practice.