Sentences with phrase «many scientific languages»

Those literary tools may not be precise scientific language, but they still carry at least some truth to start and work with.

Scientific language, although often purporting to be fundamental, is actually descriptive of an already rather late and abstract realm of objects lending themselves to demarcation by the crisp logic of mathematics.

It is often wrapped in scientific language, but it is not real science, and should not be taught in science class.

Scientific language («The temperature was -5 degrees Fahrenheit») seeks language that has a certain kind of precision lacking in our ordinary speech — a precision that we can quantify and test, that can be used to settle disputes about how cold it actually is.

The problem is that of language - games, in which mythological language is contradicted by scientific language about the same world.

The dinosaur belongs properly to the scientific language of the reconstruction of biological history, and the Genesis story be longs to a biblical category of mythic thinking.

It does not replace ordinary language and it is not a higher form of scientific language.

Philosophers believed that this was true not only with respect to language about dogs but also with respect to scientific language about atoms and molecules.

And today the linguistic approach would encourage us to treat the language of divine action as an alternative to scientific language, not a competitor with it.

These are all functions very different from any of the functions of scientific language.

In a section on Lyotard in An Introductory Guide to PostStructuralism and Postmodernism, Madan Sarup points out how Lyotard explicitly contrasts scientific language, the language of verification and falsification, with narrative or story, «which certifies itself without having recourse to argumentation and proof.»

Many philosophers stress these non-cognitive functions; they insist that these tasks are valuable and legitimate but are very different from the tasks of scientific language.

The function of scientific language is the prediction and control of nature; that of religious language is the expression of self - commitment, ethical dedication, and existential life - orientation.

Scientific language has replaced myth for the understanding of physical phenomena, but it has not replaced poetry and art as the expression of the human spirit.

Certainly the United States has been well supplied with catastrophic texts, many of which are couched in scientific language, yet seem to attract the attention of major theologians.

Conventional scientific languages are quite successful when they are confined to descriptions and theories entirely within levels.

She spent two years in Iowa and became conversant in Russian, which at the time was one of the international scientific languages.

The problem with this is that the language to sell a product can appear to use scientific language and terms when the theories or concepts being discussed are pseudoscience.

Through this activity, you will help your child develop her observation skills, increase her ability to express herself and, without realizing it, she will be using mathematical and scientific language.

And so this was also the beginning of years of study and research into the nature of scientific language and how it could best be taught, which was to culminate many years later in a PhD plus a book on the subject: Text and Argumentation in English for Science and Technology.

He or she must be able to build and cross bridges between different disciplines, understand their scientific languages, and develop a broad view on science in general.

They approach the teaching of scientific language in the same way they would approach the general teaching of English as a foreign language.

One key trait of successful biomaterials scientists is an ability to span scientific cultures and speak a variety of scientific languages.

As all of this month's authors show, however, immersion in scientific language — and the particular, peculiar way that we scientists communicate — will also stand you in good stead.

«It's really vital that everyone be on the same page in terms of scientific language about this group,» Bird said.

He finds an understanding of scientific language and the way that science works valuable, especially in offering analogies from a layperson's point of view.

This peptide is called «pigment - dispersing factor» or short PDF in scientific language.

But the two disciplines share neither the methods nor the scientific language.

At the location of the first SNP, which in scientific language is called «rs362307», half of HD patients have different coloured ribbons in their good and bad kites.

Autophagy describes how cells replace themselves and their components over time; in scientific language, it is the process whereby cytoplasmic components are isolated from the rest of the cell within autophagosomes, which are then fused with lysosomes and degraded.

I loved the scientific language and ideas in the show and the notion of «going where no one had gone before.»

Most of these appear to be in a foreign and scientific language that only a pharmacist can decipher, but here is a little breakdown of what to look for.

To summarize all that dense scientific language, curcumin exhibits some of the most amazing anticancer properties, such as the following, which apply to most cancers:

In scientific languages, this is happens due to hormones.

They are peppered into scientific language, unsuspectingly.

The supremacy of scientific language in western culture means we do not resource to nature automatically and habitually as our prime and primal teacher.

Lead by example - by using scientific language openly and without ceremony in your own speech, the children will follow suit.

But in their darkest moments, IQ tests became a powerful way to exclude and control marginalized communities using empirical and scientific language.

The resulting script is a seamless amalgamation of academic, commercial and scientific language, covering everything from advertising copy promoting beauty products to architectural specifications and inventories relating to the house.

Michael Joo's non-linear, almost cyclical approach to his practice, together with his combination of scientific language and research, results in work that is a documentation of process.

But is a science paper the best place to «not» use scientific language, or maybe it's okay in science papers to be scientific and then to have folks such as yourself, talking to a non scientific audience, explain what it means using relatable percentages, such as the «roll of the dice» analogy (which really isn't that bad because it is relatable).

Scientific language removes all the emotion, and people don't understand it anymore.

For negotiators seeking a treaty to ignore important qualifying scientific language is utterly counterproductive and bound — appropriately — to be attacked.

This makes your comments rather mystifying as you seem unaware of basic scientific language.

I disagree, although there is always a big difference between the precision of ordinary language and the precision of scientific language.

Secondly to make sure that it's policy relevant, and translate the scientific language in to the language that can be adjusted, it's important but not sufficient.

GCM's can't make predictions about any of those aspects of climate, and to suggest otherwise is an abuse of «predict» as scientific language.

But that's I think because the public is uninformed about specifics, and even when an equally carefully worded phrase is used, where 98 % of scientists know it's not consensus, the same 50/50 split among the public will come up, and all that means is they don't know scientific language and the specifics of the issue well and otherwise it says a lot less than you might think at first glance it says.

Scientific language provides a lot of terminology that one is supposed to use to express limited degrees of confidence.

Kyoto has permitted different groups to tell different stories about themselves to themselves and to others, often in superficially scientific language.