Sentences with phrase «mechanistic explanation of»

The quantitative and mechanistic explanation of these CO2 variations remains one of the major unsolved questions in climate research.

A mechanistic explanation of the PDO, along the lines of the ENSO mechanism, has not been put forward, by the way.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of essays by prominent physicists, biologists, geneticists, zoologists, philosophers and other thinkers about the relationship between science and philosophy, particularly the teleological versus the mechanistic explanation of the universe.

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Being mechanistic, modern science is also historicist: It argues that a complete description of the efficient and material causal history of an entity is a complete explanation of the entity itself» in other words, that an understanding of how something came to be is the same as understanding what it is.

On the one hand, certain zones of experience are viewed as impermeable to mechanistic explanation (poetry or religious inspiration, for example) and are thus simply excluded from relevance.

A preference for atomicity (explanation in terms of amino and nucleic acids) prescribes the method for molecular biology; and a persistent materialism hovers over the essentially anti- mechanistic physics of this century.

And in principle, the theory held, all events can be given this type of mechanistic causal explanation.

However, most important for our immediate purposes, the view that there are limitations on both mechanistic and teleological causal explanations of creative events is expressed in Peirce's own writings.

This is not because such words are supposed to have some kind of vitalistic tinge which will redeem what we have to say from apparent mechanistic suggestions, but because they are in fact required for any genuine understanding of the world and any sound explanation of how things come to be.

Since the goal of this paper is to describe a mechanistic model of explanation, the connection between these logical notions and Turing machines will allow us to establish the relationship between the explanatory model and the image of the machine.

«This study shows, that there is a mechanistic explanation for why fish may move, faced with a choice, and now we have a way of testing it,» Johansen said.

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and led by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania now offers the first mechanistic explanation for why this is the case.

One eight - month IER trial in obesity - prone rats reported an increase in theproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS), with no clear mechanistic explanations.26 Another trial, this time over six months, showed that IER - fed rats displayed marked reductions in diastolic compliance and cardiac reserve due to observed reductions in cardiomyocyte size and increased myocardial fibrosis.23 No human trials to date have reported any adverse effects on cardiovascular health during long - term IER.

Psychiatry has been seeking to scientifically substantiate itself for the better part of a century, and we have all fallen prey to the allure of the biological explanation, the organic cause, the mechanistic descriptor for a given pathology.

Scientifically, some sort of explanation as to the sequence of events is expected at the mechanistic levels of eg physics, chemistry or biology.

We don't know that for a fact in the real data, but to believe that they do on the basis of thinking you see such patterns (and with no reasonable mechanistic explanation) is sort of like continuing to believe Yuri Geller can bend spoons with his mind after James Randi has clearly demonstrated how he can just as convincingly bend spoons using slight - of - hand.

«We're providing mechanistic explanations for how those dramatic sorts of rates of ice sheet retreat could actually happen,» DeConto told me, «but we don't need [Hansen's] feedback [to reach similar conclusions.]»