Sentences with phrase «least understood phenomena»

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In science, a theory is a collection of scientifically verified hypotheses that together form a complex understanding of at least loosely related physical phenomena.

If, for instance, my encounter with another's love should vouchsafe to me a new understanding of self, what happens is by no means restricted to consciousness, at least if consciousness is to be taken as a psychic rather than as an existential phenomenon, which is what Thielicke and others wrongly suppose.

And I don't understand this, or at least, I think it needs some further explanation: «Colours and colour relationships, in so far as they create light, do refer to phenomena of the natural world».

Pfeffer (contributor to the sea level chapter 13) was the least hysterical, pointing out that the AR5 increase in projected SL rise over AR4 is mostly a result of having incorporated «rapid dynamic ice loss», a phenomenon that is not yet well understood.

On the other hand, because applying design to work traditionally done by lawyers is a rather new phenomenon, it may be necessary to speak of legal design (at least in the short term) so that people understand what we're talking about.

The problem with many of our understandings of psychological phenomena, not least in the field of addiction, is that we are mired in a dualistic understanding of the world.

They dig into the phenomenon of parental alienation to provide a deeper understanding of why people find and marry people who will eventually alienate their children from them, how the alienating parents «sell» the poisonous message to the children, and how — sometimes when it seems least likely — the alienated children and their lost parents find their way back to each other.

It has been proposed that empathy is a multi-faceted phenomenon that can be fractionated into at least three forms: cognitive empathy (understanding others» mental states / emotion recognition), affective empathy (feeling the same emotion as another person), and motor empathy (mirroring others» body movements and facial expressions; Blair 2005).