Sentences with phrase «know isolated facts»

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Well, the first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang»em back.

for example school prayer, i know it is a hot button issue but its a fact, school lead prayer isolates children who are of differant faiths.

They are still held captive by an epistemology borrowed from the modern university, with its notion of detached objectivity, the fact - value dichotomy, the separation of emotion and reason (with reason as the superior means of knowing) and the loss of any authority other than an isolated, sovereign self that is subservient to the needs of the modern nation - state.

So we don't know how much about this re-imagining of the King Kong mythos beyond the fact that Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman, Tom Wilkinson, John C. Reilly, Samuel L. Jackson, Shea Whigham, and Samuel L. Jackson will presumably come face - to - face with a massive gorilla on an isolated and deadly island.

Conceptual understanding is about knowing more than isolated facts and methods.

«No longer will subject matter be presented as general information / isolated facts about a lot of separate ideas.

- The Guardian (UK) «Flanery's brilliantly sly and funny book updates Nabokov's Cold War story of despotic power to the present day... The fear that we are watched is no longer the province of isolated fantasists but a new fact of everyday life.»

It is well known that Buffett and Templeton, based in Omaha and the Bahamas respectively, preferred to be isolated from Wall Street «chatter» — with Buffett saying «Believe it or not, we get mail here, we get periodicals and we get all of the facts needed to make decisions but unlike Wall Street we don't have 50 people coming up and whispering in our ear that we should be doing this or that this afternoon».

How about «I took a well - known result of atmospheric dynamics, driven by non-equilibrium differential heating caused by the GHG GHE and claimed that it is a static feature of an adiabatically isolated atmosphere, ignoring the fact that the proposed thermal profile violates the second law of thermodynamics for the specific conditions of long relaxation times and equilibrium conditions I propose».

Conversely, individuals formerly bullied were found to have higher levels of depression and poorer self - esteem at the age of 23 years, despite the fact that, as adults, they were no more harassed or socially isolated than comparison adults.40 Those who have been bullied may view such treatment as evidence that they are inadequate and worthless and may internalize these perceptions.