Sentences with phrase «observable features»

In the same way, diagnostic categories are based on observable features of the child (that is, symptoms) and tell us something about nonobservable features (such as the neural basis or associated risk factors).

«Reputational ratings are simply inferences from broad, readily observable features of an institution's identity, such as its history, its prominence in the media, or the elegance of its architecture.

The measurable quantities in stellar astrophysics include the externally observable features of the stars: distance, temperature, radiation spectrum and luminosity, composition (of the outer layers), diameter, mass, and variability in any of these.

A good category allows us to make inferences about nonobvious properties: for example, categorizing an object as a dog (based on observable features such as the shape of the head, the tail) allows the inference of nonobservable features (for instance, it has lungs, it may bite).

The latter is an observable feature of present - day reality, whereas the former deals primarily with non-repeatable events of the very distant past.

For example, mathematician William A. Dembski wrote that the «intelligent design» evident in «observable features of the natural world... can be adequately explained only by recourse to intelligent causes.»

Darwin and others have suggested that one of the major factors driving these differences is sexual selection — the theory that an animal chooses a member of the opposite sex based on some observable feature that signals good health and superior genes.

One observable feature of this collar is that it is water - resistant.