Sentences with phrase «many empirical observations»

But one empirical observation: in the mid 1990's the Canadian government tightened fiscal policy a lot (for reasons unrelated to reducing aggregate demand), but the Bank of Canada managed to offset that fiscal tightening and keep inflation on target.

«Middle Child Syndrome» is a psychological label for the empirical observation that middle children often do not receive as much parental attention as first and last - born siblings.

Critics of Intelligent Falling point out that gravity is a provable law based on empirical observations of natural phenomena.

He is persuaded by Kant's argument that we can not infer divine designs or moral principles from empirical observation.

Unlike the indestructibility of the past which follows logically from the law of contradiction, this «fading of the past» is the result of empirical observation.

Truth emerges in empirical observation, not in revelation.

Seeing an event happen is an empirical observation.

The empirical observation is that people claim that they knew someone was dead because the deceased visited them and told them so.

Neither does Aquinas condemn empirical observation or even the pursuit of difficult subjects, so long as one possesses genuine ability.

Although empirical observations of the world can be reduced to scientific propositions, their form in community discourse is narrational.

Pretty closed minded to think that your version of proof trumps empirical observation.

As they see it, their argument is a conclusion of reason alone based on empirical observation.

In an empirical observation of human activity and life, a la Hobbes, desire seems to know no end other than death.

Rather than working with a parsimonious specification of master trends, social laws, or correlations among variables, the analyst works with a complex set of concepts and empirical observations, piecing them together in ways that reveal underlying processes and interconnections.14

Thus, despite the fact that Wieman and others of similar persuasion found elements of Whitehead's philosophy congenial, and despite the fact that many others saw Wieman as a Whiteheadian, in retrospect one must conclude that Whitehead's influence on Wieman was very partial and that the influence of John Dewey, with a resultant emphasis on empirical observation and verification, was much more formative for Wieman's distinctively empirical and pragmatic theology.

For McGrath, natural theology is not a means to prove the existence of God, but rather should aim to highlight a «fundamental consonance or resonance between Christian theory and empirical observation».

This is a statement that normally means, the way to know anything is through empirical observation (sense perception).

What it doesn't do is make the case through empirical observation.

In modern science the term «theory», or «scientific theory» refers to a given explanation, consistent with the scientific method, of empirical observation.

On the other hand, the concrete aspect of God is his dependent, related, and contingent actuality; and it, being entirely inaccessible to rational proof, can only be known by direct, empirical observation or «encounter.

It can only be known through empirical observation and experiences.71

Nervously, I reminded him (Professor Albritton also taught Aristotle) that, based upon a rudimentary (and now recognized to be false) empirical observation, Aristotle and Aquinas thought that the stars in the firmament were unchangeable, permanent, and, thus in a special sense, «necessary beings,» different from all other changeable substances they had observed.

As other masters of hermeneutics have done, Humboldt postulates a circle — though not of the vicious variety: only through the empirical observation of manifestations and expressions can we arrive at an understanding of the inner forces that determine a character, but we need to understand these inner forces to interpret the manifestation correctly.

But since human beings usually deal with symbols (i.e., signs that already bear the imprints of prior interpretations), empirical observations become more or less complete instances of symbolizings that are inherently subject to reinterpretations.

Empirical observation shows that it is the property which we may call indifferently retention, endurance, or reiteration.

The overwhelming empirical observations are in favor of God while manmade rules of logic established by the Greeks favor their philosophies which resulted in the monument to the unknown god.

Please list the «empirical observations» «of the promises of god as detailed in the bible» «happening every time without fail»

Some of these variations may owe more to ideology than to empirical observation, and certainly some of them may be incompatible with the Catholic faith.

Empirical observation confirms these conversions occur as Jesus stated and in accordance with his formula.

The evidence supports the pope's negative conclusion: Increased condom distribution was actually correlated to increased infection (an empirical observation the reasons for which remain debated).

(Empirical observation) confirms these conversions occur as Jesus stated and in accordance with his formula.»

But Marx clearly meant those seemingly empirical observations to be polemical exaggerations designed to provoke revolutionary hatred.

Ed, science considers evolution a theory in that it is a theory based on many, many instances of empirical observation of evolution at work.

There was no empirical observation of advancement of religion in this case for the simple reason that it was assumed from the outset.

That would be historically unique, and perhaps for that very reason historically false, for an invisible Christianity could be very much alive today, or one invisible by all orthodox and ecclesiastical criteria, but one nevertheless deeply alive in our depths, even if those depths are invisible to empirical observation.

Concussion simulations that point to the corpus callosum are consistent with empirical observations — patients with concussions do often have damage in the corpus callosum.

The seven I focus on here — the wave equation, Maxwell's four equations, the Fourier transform and Schrödinger's equation — illustrate how empirical observations have led to equations that we use both in science and in everyday life.

S: We use empirical observation.

What is provided to the community are galaxy catalogues based upon three distinct models that all include the physical processes relevant for galaxy formation and evolution, conforming to and reproducing specific empirical observations.

We can confirm this by comparing the calculation to empirical observations.

That would be my best guess... but like I said, it was based solely on empirical observation.

The medicinal properties of herbs have been learned through empirical observation and the information has been passed down through successive generations of healers.

It's not big realization stuff, it's empirical observation followed by a conclusion, which is different.

Teachers are taught (and via licensing exams, tested on) empirical observations (how kids think and act) as well as psychological theories.

Again, many empirical observations could prove useful to teachers — for example, that intelligence can be improved with sustained cognitive work — but there is no single accepted theory of intelligence.

These empirical observations have obvious implications for investors allocating to factor exposures and the smart beta products that house them.

The number 0.03 derives from the empirical observation that trading 10 % of average daily volume has 30 basis points of market impact.

In the second part we provide a theoretical justification of the empirical observations.

Wells adds that a team of about dozen specialists prepared the Wildlife Action Plan, from field observations to drafting — representing the first time that the District has taken empirical observations and inventories into account for the plan.

Here, one each from the»60s,»70s and»80s testify to a kind of religious insistence on empirical observation.