Sentences with phrase «many confident assertions»

In these days of rival grand theories» superstrings, the inflationary model, et al.» competing on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal for the status of last word on the ultimate, Davies» book might appear to be just another technician's confident assertion that science will soon have all the answers.

It is hard to imagine how a population planner would have arrived at an accurate assessment of the present value of a birth in Korea in 1955, much less make confident assertions about the ways in which the present value of that birth would be changed through alterations in the contemporary Korean birthrate.

Scholars honor tentativeness more than certainty, and skill in criticism and analysis more than confident assertion.

The Shaffers, rather, examine different moral models of the lawyer, concluding with the ways in which a confident assertion of Christian and Jewish particularities might influence positively the practice of law in America.

MatGB, Well, yes, it may be consistent within that worldview, but the reality - based community is allowed to see whether we have any information to test the hypothesis before we implement it on the basis of these very confident assertions.

The confident assertion it's wrong is turning into «anecdotal» evidence its results don't tally with individual seats.

Another clanger was his confident assertion that Iran has already «got a nuclear weapon».

I agree with Kurt in rejecting what he calls the carbohydrate - insulin hypothesis of obesity, but I am uneasy at the confident assertion that «reducing food reward» is the mechanism by which excluding flour, sugar, and omega - 6 fats helps people lose weight.

We concluded that those exhibiting self - confident assertions of dating standards are perceived as holding relatively more promise as marriage partners.

(In five countries — Australia, France, Hong Kong, Scotland, and the United States — our strategy led to inconclusive estimates that do not allow for any confident assertions about the effects of differences in class size.)

It ends with a confident assertion that thanks to the ceaseless capacity of the human race for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty - first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced.

Confident assertions, for example, have been made in this very forum, that climatic states in the past 1000 years have never matched the present - state, based on the simple fact that the paleo temperatures of the MWP never reach the mythical heights the instrumental proxy of the present day.

Bear in mind that the public are hearing very confident assertions from spokespeople on the climate change issue who appear to all intents and purposes to be representing the scientific community.

They are not worthless, but neither do they support strong, confident assertions.

A highlight is Baliunas» confident assertion that «the ozone hole can not occur in the Arctic» — a claim that stood up for about three years.

The increasing normalized trends in the U.S. were evident in convective storms, winter storms, flooding events and high temperature - related losses, and were almost statistically significant for hurricanes at the conventional 95 percent confidence level.3 In view of data like this, it's very hard to accept Pielke's confident assertion that «[n] o matter what President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron say, recent costly disasters are not part of a trend driven by climate change.»

Having said that, I'm not comfortable with Pielke's assertion that climate change has played no role in the observed increase in damages from natural hazards; I don't see how the data he cites support such a confident assertion.

It's pretty much all there, the trappings of a moral panic argument: emphasis on the vulnerable among us (whether young or ignorant or simply «innocent»), the allegation of insidious corruption working in ways that are out of the sight of the ordinary person, the confident assertions of the experts, the reification of the danger in print («I hold in my hand a book...», «I have here in my hand a list of 205 — a list of names... «-RRB- and the use of very large (and rising) numbers that need only be tangentially related to the actual scourge...

Not exact matches

A historian, to be sure, must feel some diffidence in offering such confident, perhaps judgmental assertions about a project that must be carried out by others — by theologians.

Both those demanding unilateral disarmament and those calling for the full replacement of Trident rely on confident but evidence-less pronouncements about the threats Britain faces, and bald assertions that their opponents are out of touch with both reality and morality.

I am also confident that except for the surprising exception of our «academic» economist, those assertions are uncontroversial.

Bill McKibben, co-founder of the nonprofit climate advocacy group 350.org, took particular issue with Exxon Mobil's assertion that it remained confident that the supply - and - demand equation for petroleum would remain in its favor, even in an era of generally tightening carbon regulation.

Dave Richardson, Health Officer for the Manalapan Township Health Department, which oversees Western Monmouth Animal Control, rejects Goldman's assertions, telling Tyrrell, «We're going to defend ourselves in court, and we're confident these employees will prevail.»

Please do also observe that operators at the time of these incidents large and small are always perfectly confident in their assertions of complete safety and reliability.

After doing the assignment last year with 90 students, I am even more confident in this assertion.

How confident are you in this assertion?

I'd have to be much less confident of such an assertion than, say, of the conclusions of the recent Lovejoy paper, at perhaps 67 % for yours and 99 % for Lovejoy's, based on the quality of the evidence and inference.

Not very confident you can make that assertion legitimately, but such proves the point of the post.

That it co-exists with a range of other poorly defined sweeping assertions doesn't make me very confident.

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The attribution of raised CO2 to anthropogenic emissions is a straight assertion — there's no attempt to display the science which, judging from the rest of it, he would have been happy to do had he been confident.

The public isn't hearing «we project a spread of scenarios», what the public is hearing is a confident unequivocal assertion.

Pressed on why he was «extremely» confident in this assertion, Epstein explained that Clinton's team was just as capable of doing just as much with web analytics as CA, if not far more.