Sentences with phrase «less than theory»

Theoretical claims are normally found to be such and the real world numbers are almost always a lot less than theory indicates might be possible.

Einstein's moral clarity, his insistence that we should accept nothing less than a theory that gives a completely coherent account of individual phenomena, can not be followed unless we reject almost all contemporary theoretical physics as insufficient.

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There's no definitive answer as to why female founders raise less venture capital than male founders, but one of the main theories is the lack of female VCs.

The study, titled «Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk,» found that loss aversion «expresses the intuition that a loss of $ X is more aversive than a gain of $ X is attractive... for example, most respondents in a sample of undergraduates refused to stake $ 10 on the toss of a coin if they stood to win less than $ 30.»

Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math for building things rather than 21st century math for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).

One thing leads to another and you find yourself diving down a rabbit hole of less than legal topics and half - serious conspiracy theories.

An indicator based on the theory that a consumer turns to less expensive indulgences, such as lipstick, when she (or he) feels less than confident about the future.

That Facebook pursued such a strategy is even less of a surprise than Google's imperious adoption of Wikipedia as conspiracy theory debunker: Facebook's motto was «Making the world more open and connected», and the company has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to do just that, whether users like it or not.

In theory, you'd think people who still had $ 1 billion would feel proportionately less pain than the average Joe whose stock portfolio fell from $ 300,000 to $ 100,000 and suddenly he can't retire.

The notion of a bureau - inspired plot is in some ways less ridiculous than the «crisis actors» theory — Hogg's dad really was in the FBI, and for all we know, he really does hate Trump — but on another level, it's even crazier.

This idea originated with Bernard B. Kerik, a former NYC police commissioner, who tweeted his theory on February 15 — two days earlier, and less than 24 hours after the school shooting that left 17 people dead.

The affront to science is that it claims to be a theory yet it is untestable and much less elegant, less simple than evolution.

The Theory of Evolution is comprised of no less than 5 laws.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

But your knowledge of science is so much less than so many Catholic Priests such as Gregor Mendel (1822 - 1884) the father of modern genetics, Georges Lemaître (1894 - 1966) the person who proposed the Big Bang Theory and Stanley Jaki Born in Hungary, he earned doctorates in Systematic Theology and Nuclear Physics, is fluent in five languages, and has authored 30 books.

Indeed there are indications that those most formed by the theory are less likely to see reasons for giving to others than are those less influenced by it.

The texts which could have more than one meaning are concerned with subsidiary aspects of Islam, but not its fundamentals, and have given rise to a plurality of Muslim theories and attitudes which are more or less personal points of view and are far from being obligatory.

However, as I have tried to show, while in Deleuze's metaphysics we find something like Whiteheadian pure potentiality reappearing in a radically decentered form, the net result is less a neo-Whiteheadian naturalism than a distinctly postmodern avatar of polytheism: a vision of multiple «little divinities» effecting random syntheses of differential elements within an immanent space of possibilities: a theory of evolution metamorphosed into Chaosmological Myth: an unqualified affirmation of the endless, goalless, production of Difference.

It also confirms more than any other evidence that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light within less than a trillion of a trillion of a trillion of a second — less than 10 ^ -35 of a second — of the Big Bang by detecting the miniscule «light polarizations» called B - Modes caused by the Gravitational Waves — which were theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity but never detected before — of the Inflation of the Big Bang which are embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — CMB or CMBR that was discovered by American scientists back in 1964.

The theory of reincarnation that I like is that each time you return, it is as something less than what you were.

Even if God is thought of as having slightly less than perfect knowledge, the idea of God being able to fully appreciate ignorance seems categorically impossible.6 There are further problems for the theory of divine relativity.

The Southern Baptist branch was based on segregation when it formed, splitting from its parent Baptist Church which apparently could not in theory subjugate individuals to being less than human based on skin, eye, and hair color and features.

Uniting so many of these new voices, it, seems, is not a theory of hermeneutics, much less a revised correlational method for theology, but a new hermeneutical practice that actualizes that theory and that method better than many of the theorists do.

No less a mathematical authority than Alonzo Church, in his review of the second edition of volumes II and III, claims that in the whole of volume I (over 700 pages of closely argued mathematical logic introductory to the theory of cardinal numbers) and together with volumes II and III (themselves enormous tomes) one gets «cardinal numbers, relations and relation - numbers, series, well ordered series and ordinal numbers, and finally the continuum of real numbers» (BAMS34: 237).

Though illuminating, they seem less histories of a stable and intelligible idea than etymologies of an inconstant but imperishable word — a verbal phoenix that re-arises only to migrate, becoming the label for yet another irreconcilable theory of human individuation.

In Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science, the distinction between theory and observation is less absolute than for these other authors.

Rather than viewing each society as a separate entity moving along a track from less modern to more modern, the critics of modernization theory argue that societies interact with one another as parts of a larger system.

The Big Bang is no less a theory than religions are.

Before he died, he completed, together with Hiley, a comprehensive theory that can account for all the known facts in a far less paradoxical fashion than had been thought possible.

If you properly engage in this work, you will be interested in arriving at a position on whatever it is that interests you (philosophy, critical theory, history, philology, literary criticism, or whatever) that is preferable to any other that you know of on that question, and you will concomitantly want to be clear as to what the position that you construct and defend is, what it excludes, how best to show that its competitors are less adequate than the one you want to defend, and in what sense this is true.

Hartshorne's position on abortion is also influenced by his theory of aesthetic value, which emphasizes that a diversity of experiences balanced by an aesthetically pleasing amount of complexity and orderliness contributes to life and to God, more fully than do less balanced experiences.

Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to claim that no other major area of Whitehead's philosophy has received less attention than has his theory of civilized society.

The experimental evidence that natural selection could build a vertebrate from an invertebrate, a mammal from a reptile, or a human from an ape is a bit less than the experimental evidence for superstring theory» that is, none at all.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Though «human evolution» is a theory, considering the fossils and evidence of proto - human beings, it is far more likely that we evolved from a lesser developed ancestor than it is that we were made out of dirt by a supernatural deity.

But it is actually less a contribution to critical theory than a continuation of several themes from earlier books, including the search for a metaphor or bridge from the self to the physical world.

Some have advanced the theory that the strong family and in - group ties of the Jewish culture provide a more secure childhood than in other groups, thus producing less need for artificial escape.

The traditional theories of atonement have been less than adequate here.

Theories change, evolution is old science with less than minimal proof yet we still hold on to it.

The movement from theoria to theory, which has as its goal nothing less than the complete rationalization of experience, is one consequence of this identification.

In the first chapter of Modes of Thought, Whitehead states that it is no less the task of philosophy to set out what he calls»... notions of large, adequate generality» (MT 3) than it is to construct complex systematic theories.

Such universal responsibility is incompatible with a spiritualism that limits the Church's concern to immaterial values, with a moralism that does not understand the value of the sin ner and the sinful nation, with an individualism that makes mankind as a whole and its societies of less concern to God than single persons, and with any of those particularistic and polytheistic theories of value and responsibility which substitute for God - in - Christ some other deity as the source of valuable being.

«The body,» he continues, «would thus be, not the cause of our thinking, but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and, although essential to our sensuous and animal consciousness, it may be regarded as an impeder of our pure spiritual life.8 And in a recent book of great suggestiveness and power, less well - known as yet than it deserves, — I mean» Riddles of the Sphinx,» by Mr. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, late of Cornell University, — the transmission - theory is defended at some length.9

It may sometimes happen that a fundamental difference of opinion on matters of principle may persist in theory, and retain real importance, while the circumstances of life and action change so much that the difference of opinion is of less moment for life and action than it previously was.

Another architect of modern evolutionary theory, Dobzhansky, had a less explicit metaphysic than Wright but he was greatly influenced by his early upbringing in the Russian Orthodox Church.

But in the twentieth century, the main influences of science on religion have come less from specific theories — such as quantum physics, relativity, astronomy, or molecular biology — than from views of science as a method.

In any event, one of the unavoidable side effects of literature and the arts generally is that they cater to the human need to believe that cognitive dissonance is only a temporary thing, so that they anticipate and support those grand unification theories that have compelled political reformers no less than scientists.

@Ed What was objectionable in your earlier statement is that you were implying that while gravity is a known fact that is still less than 100 % understood (hence the term «theory of gravity»), evolution is somehow controversial within biology and is called a theory for some very different reason.

The singular nature of this moment may be that it provides the opportunity for a less inhibited engagement of Catholic teaching and democratic theory — less inhibited from the Catholic side because of the historical ascendancy of democracy in the framework of the Anglo - American experience, rather than the French revolutionary framework with its powerful animus against religion in general and Catholicism in particular.

The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.