Sentences with phrase «known phenomena which»

There are all sorts of known phenomena which will affect cloud cover as air comes in land and rises over mountains.

«That ordering of known phenomena which we call the world,» writes Buber, «is, indeed, the composite work of a thousand human generations.»

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Knowing my drivers were happy, in fact, made me happy — which is actually a scientifically proven phenomenon.

Some people would blame a similar phenomenon known as «the paradox of choice,» which contends that too many options can make people feel less satisfied.

Since then, longer rates have come closer to being overtaken by short rates, a phenomenon known as yield curve inversion, which has been a reliable precursor of past recessions.

This phenomenon is known as the «uncanny valley,» the point at which a leap forward in technology outpaces a human's ability to cope.

A quantum computer instead uses quantum bits — called qubits — which are atomic - scale structures that, through a phenomenon known as «superposition,» can be both zero and one at the same time.

The answer would seem to be that anti-Jewish prejudice is the classic example of that dislike and fear of strangers which the Greeks knew as xenophobia and which appears as a familiar phenomenon among primitive peoples and peoples reverting to primitivism.

The research threw up a concept known as homophily — a word invented by social scientists to describe the sociological phenomenon in which people are most drawn to others resembling themselves.

Researchers have long known about the negativity effect in email, which is the phenomenon that a recipient is likely to perceive an email as more negative than the email sender intended.

It's called «cognitive dissonance», which is a well - known phenomenon.

Given the inventions of our day, life might be even worse if there were not the leavening influence for peace, which shows itself in the renewed determination, on the part of millions, to try to make a world in which war is no longer a recurrent phenomenon.

The more one considers this eventuality (which can not be dismissed as a myth, as certain morbid symptoms, such as Sartrian existentialism, show) the more does one tend to the view that the grand enigma presented by the phenomenon of Man is not the question of knowing how life was kindled on earth, but of understanding how it might be extinguished on earth without being continued elsewhere.

Now, the secularists, naturalistic evolutionists and Marxists do accept the evolution of reason, but I am afraid they do not know how to look for the right phenomenon which points to the direction reason is being transformed.

Insurance companies are well aware of the phenomenon in which people who take out insurance against, say, burglary, are known (on average if not in every case) to modify their behaviour so that the risk of being burgled increases.

Dewey's thoroughly secular «common faith» — which he did not hesitate to call a secular religion — could accommodate Christianity, on the condition that the latter drop the claims to truth and authority that identify it with the historical phenomenon known as Christianity.

Confronted by the phenomenon of «socialization» in which Mankind is irresistibly involved, do we seek to know how to act that we may better conform to the secret processes of the world of which we are a part?

As I tried to show in the preceding part, we also know something about the structure and function of that part of brain matter to which psychic phenomena correspond.

A research programme is even more resistant to change than a theory, but may eventually be abandoned in favour of a new programme which has greater promise of explaining known data, resolving anomalies, and predicting novel phenomena.

But we can not deny that, no matter how great the influence of forms already in existence may have been at its inception, and no matter how complex and manifold and colorful its components may appear to be in historical analysis, Mahayana Buddhism is nonetheless a unique phenomenon, which we can not «explain» by summarizing its constituent elements.

I think it is important to see this «LEAVING» as much bigger than «Church» — it is a universal phenomena with similar patterns no matter which domain.

It also allows a phenomenon known as thought stopping where a simple word can stop any thoughts in the member's mind which are against the cult.

As a result, the scope of physics today is phenomena which is quantifiable, or measurable, and no longer focuses on material bodies from the point of view of being.

If, as we have shown, the social phenomenon is not merely a blind determinism but the portent, the inception of a second phase of human Reflexion (this time not merely individual but collective), then it must mean that the phylum is reconstituting itself above our heads in a new form, a new ramification, no longer of divergence but of convergence; and consequently it is the Sense of Evolution which, suppressing the spirit of egoism, is of its own right springing to new life in our hearts, and in such a way as to counteract those elements in the forces of collectivization which are poisonous to Life.

It would seem, then, that the grand phenomenon which we are now witnessing represents a new and possibly final division of Mankind, based no longer on wealth but on belief in progress.

What I set out to show, and hope to have shown, is that, viewed from a certain angle, the internal stir of the Cosmos no longer appears disorderly: it takes a given direction following a major axis of movement at the completion of which the human phenomenon becomes detached as the most advanced form of the largest and most characteristic of cosmic processes, that of in - folding.

As is well known, the method of Newton's Philosopiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, after which Russell and Whitehead's work was modeled, was to infer particular propositions from phenomena and then render these general by induction.

It's a cartoon about the church's true ignorance to study of the scripture — which is a well known phenomenon.

Obviously on one hand, some see it as a supernatural (which doesn't mean «ghosts / spooky» but «beyond known natural occurrences / laws» event, while others see it as within the natural phenomenon, but in some way directly addressed to their specific need.

We know these things as phenomena, but of the «something or other» which lies behind them we can only speak in negatives.

I read this book on a flight to San Diego, which seemed to pass in the blink of an eye — mainly because, although I was intimately acquainted with the phenomenon of «biblicism,» I'd never known what to call it.

They fall under the spell of one or another charismatic rabbi (or «Rebbe»), a phenomenon for which a precedent already existed in the century - old Hasidic communities of Lubavitch, Satmar, Belz and other less well known East - European centers.

The results, slow or sudden, or great or small, of the combined optimism and expectancy, the regenerative phenomena which ensue on the abandonment of effort, remain firm facts of human nature, no matter whether we adopt a theistic, a pantheistic - idealistic, or a medical - materialistic view of their ultimate causal explanation.

This is a well - known phenomena called «digestive leukocytosis», in which there is a rise in the number of leukocytes — white blood cells — after eating.

The phenomenon that controls to a large extent the arrangement of ligands at metal centres is known as the trans - influence, which originates from the fact that some ligands bind to metals more strongly that others so ligands will avoid being opposite stronger donor ligands.

Students should know that there are such things as the laws of nature and physics, which we believe govern every single phenomenon in the universe, even if they don't study in detail what those are.

This trade wind strengthening, which occurs during a the negative phase of a phenomenon called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (also known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation), pushes warm water westward and and changes Pacific Ocean circulation.

Although a winter storm had been forecast, few were prepared for the intensity of the post-Christmas storm, which included a phenomenon known as thundersnow in some areas, shut down railways and left thousands stranded at airports across the region.

Advanced sociality, or eusociality, a hallmark of which is reproductive specialization into worker and queen castes, is essentially a phenomenon of the group of invertebrates known as arthropods.

Sometimes, a phenomenon known as «alternative polyadenylation» occurs in cells, through which these tails are added to different positions on mRNAs, thereby influencing their functions.

In the field of astrophysics, the University of Cambridge physicist is also known for his work on gravity and black holes, including his 1974 postulation of the eponymous Hawking radiation, a phenomenon by which a black hole should give off a stream of particles from its outer boundary.

In a recent set of experiments, psychologist Nilli Lavie of University College London found that this bit of gray matter holds the key to the phenomenon known as change blindness, in which people overlook the obvious when their attention is challenged.

One of the most notable aspects of the psychedelic experience is a phenomenon known as the dissolution of the ego, in which users feel somehow detached from themselves.

It is a known phenomenon and one of many that we do not yet fully understand but which may be telling us as much about learning and evolution of the brain as about how we forget.

These outflows are driven by the life and death of stars, specifically stellar winds and supernova explosions, which collectively give rise to a phenomenon known as «galactic wind.»

«When I consider the physical phenomena known to me,» he wrote, «I still can not find any fact anywhere which would make it appear likely that [that] requirement will have to be abandoned.»

GP - B will be attempting to measure the angle at which Earth is curving its surrounding spacetime, a phenomenon known as the geodetic effect.

In 1905, Einstein wrote in the opening paragraph of his first paper on relativity theory, «It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics — as usually understood at the present time — when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena.»

Their work relies on a phenomenon known as acoustic cavitation, in which sound waves rattling through a fluid create tiny bubbles and then cause them to expand and collapse.

«It's important to know which species can adapt their morphology and behavior» in response to climate change, she says, and collecting data on such phenomena will help set priorities for conserving species.