Sentences with phrase «observations of nature in»

My inspiration partly comes from my childhood experiences and observations of Nature in rural Kenya.

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A self limiting existence in atheism is contrary to nature and observation of mankind even in the Americas and Australia.

It is Kate, practiced in observing Binx at his own detached observation, who most nearly draws him into the world, by recognizing the nature of the «game» Binx is playing in his Kierkegaardian exercises of repetition and rotation.

In turn he showed that repeated observation of the world around us organically develops our knowledge of the form or nature of things.

Thus Polanyi concludes that, «When Einstein discovered rationality in nature, unaided by any observation that had not been available for at least fifty years before, our positivistic textbooks promptly covered up the scandal by an appropriately embellished account of his discovery.»

Second, it is my observation that advocates of the theology of nature are appreciatively open to other «theologies of» in a way that these others are often not open to one another and certainly not to the theology of nature.

Only in rational observation of reality, observation that others through their own senses can replicate, can reliable indication of the nature of the world be found.

There may be some clue here to previously puzzling observations about processes of nature which are unrelated to value in the comment that this process of flowing «is not the work of God.

Most importantly, though, my observations do not concern nature at all, which is inextinguishable and which, at some level, always longs for God; they concern culture, which has the power to purge itself of the natural in some considerable degree.

If these observations are accurate, more unites than divides the churches, at least in respect to the nature and function of authority.

«88 The parables, then, serve as a faithful guide to the middle class and peasant life in Palestine.89 The realism of the parables with their accurate observations on nature and life led Jeremiah to observe that many of them rose out of some accurate occurrence.90

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine intervention.

Third, scientific reflection (in the form of observation and much speculation) on the nature of time itself also has profound implications on how man conceives of his reality as a succession of events (how man connects events in his reality)- interpreted as the passage of time - and whether those events are intrinsically connected, and, if so, whether or not such a connection is changeable.

«The scientific view of the Universe is such as to admit only those phenomena that can, in one way or another, be observed in a fashion accessible to all, and to admit those generalizations (which we call laws of nature) that can be induced from those observations.»

We shall see that the scientist limits himself professionally to certain aspects of the problem, and therefore can not pretend that his description is complete... The natural scientist confines himself in his description of the world to the objective data which he can obtain by the observation of nature.4

This type of argument is again broadly evidentiary in nature, although it reflects not the «turn to the subject» characteristic of the appeal to individual experience, but rather a «pragmatic» or «linguistic» turn, as illustrated by Whitehead's observation that the evidence of human experience as shared by civilized intercommunication «is also diffused throughout the meanings of words and linguistic expressions» (cited in TPT 74).12 Such an appeal is an essentially historical form of argumentation.

Their theology was rooted in human experience and observation, attentive to the ways of nature and the solace of tradition.

The constitution has been described as encouraging a shift from deductive to inductive methodology, in other words one based upon a developing understanding and observation of human nature.

His observations on the continents of the southern hemisphere changed his views of the source of the order in nature.

«11 The significance of this observation for understanding cognition, says Romeo, lies in the implication that the intimate nature of things is hidden in all of us, so that «each person must analyze, himself on the basis of internal signs (as well as external ones that might act only as catalysts).»

DE: He sometimes used William James» phrase — «specious present,» and this can be enlarged to «the whole of nature apprehended in our immediate observation.»

Dave, I didn't say that you hate and my thoughts are not religious in nature, they are observations of human behavior.

In this book, Whitehead traces the origin of modern natural science as it generalized laws of nature from new observations of aggregates — cannon - balls, stars, grains of sand — and then assumed these laws to apply to individual organisms as well.

Hence the careful and comprehensive observation of nature will yield indications for human behavior, which were part of God's intention in creating in the first place and which therefore have the status of moral imperatives for humans.

Hence there can not be impersonal observation of history in the same sense that there can be impersonal observation of nature.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

Alice's special contribution to Experience Alexander Valley will be a limited edition illustrated nature guide to assist in the observation of native species while hiking.

«Judging from observations made during my brief visit to this portion of the island, east of Dunga, the chillie cultivation struck me as being of a very scattered nature, generally small isolated patches from half to one or two acres in extent, and combined with tobacco, tomato, pumpkins, etc..

I, being of lawful age, in consideration of being permitted to utilize the above - described race track facilities and / or participate in and / or observe TVBWFA Barrel Races and / or events release and forever discharge Releases, their heirs, administrators, and executors of and from any and every claim, demand, action, of whatsoever kind or nature, either in law or in equity arising from or by reason of any bodily injury or personal injuries known or unknown, death, and / or property damage which may occur as a result of my utilization of the above described race track facilities and / or any participation in and / or observation of TVBWFA Barrel Races and / or events or any activity in connection therewith, whether by negligence or not.

Because her science method relies on nature walks, it would seem that her method would require adaptation in order to accommodate instruction in sciences that can not be drawn out of natural observation.

Never underestimate the way your toddler can «lay up a good store of knowledge by their own observation» (Charlotte Mason) out in nature.

On our hundreds of miles of trails you can take in ocean, pond, and river views; explore forests and fields; hike drumlins and eskers; stroll boardwalks and gravel paths; discover stone walls and observation towers; go on a Quest or play nature bingo; and enjoy solitude on benches or in bird blinds.

To pin down the nature of their dozen candidates, Hailey's team plotted their spectral peaks and tracked their activity across time, finding patterns consistent with previous observations of binary black hole emissions elsewhere in the galaxy.

The study, published in Nature Communications, builds on previous observations from the same team who found that a specific type of cells regulate antibody production.

That's the conclusion reached by Louise Barrett at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, who studied 11 years of observations from a baboon troop in De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa.

The paper, published in Nature, is based on data that came about following landmark observations of gravitational waves by the LIGO gravitational wave detector in 2015 and again in 2017.

Improvements in BURST are planned that will exploit the precision cosmological observations to reveal even more exotic physics such as the nature of dark matter and dark radiation.

The latest observations, reported online January 10 in Nature and at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, suggest the bursts are coming from an environment with an unusually strong magnetic field.

Although previous supernovas have been seen this early, the new observation is the earliest one with a spectrum — an accounting of the emitted light broken up by wavelength — taken six hours after the explosion, Yaron and colleagues report online February 13 in Nature Physics.

and hence the illustration of the nature of the scientific hearings of the accessions to knowledge which his expedition has produced are drawn from these materials; but, as other branches of the information embraced in his observations are unfolded, other theoretical applications will appear for the advancement of philosophy and such of the geographical sciences as meteorology and terrestrial magnetism, concerning which the observations made in the South Polar regions tend in some respects to deliver the deciding stroke in the elaboration.

That observation led to the current study in Nature, which used a form of the heavy metal tungsten to inhibit the pathogen's metabolic tricks.

In work published online June 6, 2016, in the journal Nature, Simon's group presents new experimental observations of a quantum Hall material near a singularity of curvature in spacIn work published online June 6, 2016, in the journal Nature, Simon's group presents new experimental observations of a quantum Hall material near a singularity of curvature in spacin the journal Nature, Simon's group presents new experimental observations of a quantum Hall material near a singularity of curvature in spacin space.

The paper, published in the journal Nature communications reports a successful observation of the near - infrared (NIR) pulse - induced multiple electronic dipole oscillations (periodicities of 667 - 383 as) in the Cr: Al2O3 solid - state material.

Other observations, made with the Hubble Space Telescope and published yesterday in Nature Astronomy, found no signs of hydrogen in the atmospheres of planets d, e, and f, but were inconclusive for TRAPPIST - 1g.

Those observations, published today in Nature, reveal that the location of the bursts coincides with a faint, remote galaxy that also hosts a faint, persistent source of radio waves.

In four different observations, Hubble saw no sign of hydrogen - rich atmospheres around three of the worlds, de Wit and colleagues report in Nature AstronomIn four different observations, Hubble saw no sign of hydrogen - rich atmospheres around three of the worlds, de Wit and colleagues report in Nature Astronomin Nature Astronomy.

«We are going to observe Saturn again in May 2017 and hope to investigate the nature of Saturn's rings further by taking advantages of observations with space missions and ground - based telescopes.»

George lists a number of observations purportedly supporting multiverse theories that are dubious at best, like evidence that certain constants of nature aren't really constant, evidence in the cosmic microwave background radiation of collisions with other universes or strangely connected space, etc..

«Various observations of one particular star over the years and with different telescopes have revealed vastly different things — at one time a pulsar and the other an X-ray binary,» said Alessandro Papitto of the Institute of Space Sciences (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas — Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) in Barcelona, Spain, and lead author of a paper published in the journal Nature.

With this combination of skills in hand, an aspiring scientist can identify novel patterns in nature that challenge current dogma and employ creative experimental designs to translate such observations into new insights for the advancement of science.