Sentences with phrase «observable thing»

Sometimes, there isn't any observable thing that a human can determine.

This is not a directly observable thing: there is no time series labelled «potential supply».

A bit later, he says: «All observable things are of the same organizational type, so that human beings are analogous to material things such as rocks and bodies of water.»

Nobody had ever heard of particles being confined permanently inside observable things and not directly attainable.

Those planning constructivist lessons are to describe their objectives in terms of what observable things students will be able to do.

Not exact matches

One of the things that casual observers often get wrong is that my outlook isn't driven by some perma - bearish philosophy, but is instead a function of observable data — specifically, the historical relationship between observable data and subsequent outcomes in the financial markets and the economy.

Times when God does things, the odds of them occurring I've seen are similar to picking the right atom out of the observable universe, beyond anyone's comprehension.

So our observable universe is part of some «thing» bigger.

: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).

I agree that my definition of «myth» is open to misunderstanding, but at the same time I am convinced that it is more satisfactory than the alternative you suggest («By «mythological» we mean the presentation of unobservable realities in terms of observable phenomena») For one thing, «observable» may prove too narrow a term and «unobservable» too broad, since all spiritual attitudes are unobservable.

A real thing is objectively observable.

You'll notice that he never said that it wasn't OK to believe in god, what he said was that ignoring the vast piles of evidence that all disagree with a literal interpretation of the Bible was silly, and that in the long term it was harmful to the country to have half the people in it believing things which were contrary to the observable world.

PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.

Nor do we see, behind what appears to be a kind - hearted philosophy, an utter denial of any dimension beyond this present observable life, of any such thing as absolute right or wrong and of any power which might be called God.

Those trainers, doctors, consultants, and spotters are all looking for observable concussion symptoms: things like clumsy movement, loss of consciousness, or the fencing response, which is when a player involuntarily extends his arms straight out after suffering a brain injury.

Part of the process of human acculturation is an unconscious collusion to remain blind to the most obviously observable phenomenon, if it lies outside the realm of how we always do things.

And if that were the case, Alan is absolutely right; the only really sensible explanation is since all of the evidence suggest that unless you really fine tune things, the Higgs should be observable at the LHC or a machine like it, then it would tell us that there are some other fundamental fine tuning in nature that would strongly suggest that the universe we see is not generic and is very special.

Spiraling together, such things could, in theory, produce observable waves.

One example is positivism, which decrees that you should only talk about things that are directly detectable or observable.

It's one thing to know the human genome, but another to know what factors dictate how it relates to our observable characteristics or phenotype.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

Since we used statistical models that included many observable school -, teacher -, and class - level variables — such as school and class size, teachers» levels of education and experience, and schools» demographic makeup — it is clear that the things that make schools and teachers effective defy easy measurement.

But things become much clearer if we use resources like Achieve the Core's Instructional Practice Guides to transform the idea of «text - dependent questions» into a concrete and observable priority such as, «Teachers ask text - dependent questions that address challenging areas of the text, and scaffold students toward key understandings, leading to discussion and student writing.»

In 2004 Guillermo wrote a book called «The Privileged Planet» documenting some of the great many things that makes the earth so exceedingly uncommon that it is perhaps unique at least this galaxy if not in the observable universe.

Things that are directly observable need only be replicated.

I, like most sensible people, tend to be very skeptical of the existence of things that can not be observed, or that are only conditionally observed by other people, long ago and not regularly and reproducibly observable.

The point of Einstein's quote up above is that one can not prove mathematically one single thing about the observable universe!

A lot of smart people even today argue things violate the Second Law when clearly they are true and observable, and the science to explain their confusion has existed for years, as had Planck's own work done for years before he understood what he meant.

Our understanding of things like the greenhouse effect and the radiative properties of CO2 are observable properties of the atmosphere and CO2 that do not depend upon computer models.

That's the thing with the whole «end of the world climate change warming armageddon thing»... it's just someone's wacky theory with not a skerrick of fact or observable anything to support it.

Nothing in this is directly observable, but many things can be observed in the sense that real measurements give results out of which we can calculate something which appears to be close to the idealization.

John Nielsen - Gammon: «science doesn't work by making predictions about future events, for the most part; it makes predictions about observable aspects of the world, things detectable in the present.

These are observable in the firm's actual behavior, and might include things such as the formal observance of Secretary's Day, or mandatory retirement, or casual Fridays.

They can carry offline impacts, from Americans showing up unknowingly at Russian - promoted rallies to causing what Watts said were observable «stock dips which allow all sorts of predatory trading and other things to happen.»