Sentences with phrase «meanings in a scientific context»

The words theory and hypothesis have specific meanings in a scientific context.

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To admit that our ideas require public verification does not mean that the scientific forum, or any academic context for that matter, is the best one in which to test the truth of revelation's substance.

«Scientific objects» are theoretical entities, in that the abstract mathematical picture they present is very different from anything which could be given in sense perception; hence the plausibility of views which only give them meaning within the context of a scientifScientific objects» are theoretical entities, in that the abstract mathematical picture they present is very different from anything which could be given in sense perception; hence the plausibility of views which only give them meaning within the context of a scientificscientific theory.

Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.

One is asked, as it were, to find features of the old in the new; one is offered new ways of looking at a phenomenon.29 Harré has pointed out that many scientific terms are themselves metaphorical and carry an important component of meaning from their original context.

In the scientific context as in business, «risk» has a different meaning from the one it has in common usagIn the scientific context as in business, «risk» has a different meaning from the one it has in common usagin business, «risk» has a different meaning from the one it has in common usagin common usage.

«In our experience, most misunderstandings from scientific research come from an absence of meaning and context... [and] Preparing and scrutinising papers for publication is a vital part of establishing the meaning and context,» says Tracey Brown of the pressure group Sense About Science.

DiChristina: Right and something I didn't mention before Steve, but which I think is important to mention here is, even in focusing on a single disease — and you're right, we don't typically do that, at Scientific American, we don't want to do «disease of the month» per se, although certainly we don't mean belittle the importance of, you know, these various diseases in people's lives, but at the broader context as well.

As demonstrated above, we can promote deep learning by encouraging multiple teachers working together in helping students to understand math in the context of science, coordinating timelines of scientific discovery and literature, and demonstrating how a painter uses light to express meaning.

It was important that he is comfortable with military and scientific jargon, as literal translations don't always convey the proper meaning in a military - science - fiction context.

Since it is difficult to understand what exactly is meant by Holistic Management ® in this context, and there is no scientific literature that we are aware of that supports a significant net gain of soil carbon across environments in response to his method, we did not attempt to assess what a realistic global number might be.

In the context of scientific research, observations are measurements; while there is a general usage of the word meaning «remark», it's unhelpful to use it in this contexIn the context of scientific research, observations are measurements; while there is a general usage of the word meaning «remark», it's unhelpful to use it in this contexin this context.

More accurately, we can avoid the use of the ambiguous word «uncertain» (which takes on many different meanings depending on context, and most of them are not scientific in origin) by restating your example in the terms of «normal science».

«I (William: The Obama administration of course means all fellow warmists do not have patience for scientific discussion as the warmists can not win the argument based on science) don't have much patience for people who deny (William: deny in this context means to present facts that disprove the faulty hypothesis) climate change.»

In the scientific context it means if it isn't this, then it is something else.

This means that either the word «concensus» is meaningless in a scientific context, or your definition of «concensus» is not appropriate.

The psych literature arguments of Michael Lamb and others, such as Richard Warshak, Joan Kelly, et al. to the effect that babies can form multiple attachments — and with a leap of unsupported logic hypothesize this to mean that overnight visitation and joint custody for babies is not harmful (although no scientific findings so much as hint that it's beneficial)-- has not addressed the relative strengths of those multiple attachments, or the actual effects of such visitation, and primarily focuses on what is possible in terms of paternal caregiving and roles in the context of intact homes, not nonresident visitation or joint custody reality.