Sentences with phrase «of isk»

Yet this ignores innate skepticism and its entanglement with science, making conflation of ISk and SSk inevitable.

As my post is about the nature of ISk and its entanglement with science, I simply went with convention on this point.

This defensive role31 of ISk provides some guard against local decadence as well as alien culture31a.

Just contact Velcro Ninja in game and I will transfer 10, 000, 000 ISK to your account (up to 20 people, I ain't made out of isk ya know!

They proceeded to bring the corporation to its knees in one fell swoop, destroying Mirial's most prized ship and raiding the corporate hangars for untold billions of ISK in valuable blueprints.

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Not exact matches

Companies that fail to attain certification face fines of up to 50,000 ISK (CA$ 630) a day.

The Vita app will also access a wide range of social features, such as the in - game Mail system and Friends List to keep up with game dynamics, and players can purchase new items, weapons and vehicles from the Dust 514 Marketplace using either ISK (in - game earned currency) or Aurum (purchased currency).

I know the idea of spending in game money frightens people but think about it this way: 1 game in a free starter suit, you might die 10 times and manage to kill 1 person but your 180k ISK (in game currency) better off than when you started — so after 6 games you've got 1 million to spend — with the average fit costing 16k you're not running out any time soon!

However as ISk is modulated by cultural alignment, we are always going to see a varied topography of warring cultural beliefs and ISk, into which science issues are entangled per the list in the main post.

So ISk in members of the public will be undermined, maybe overridden by belief and support, regarding promoted scientific theories or discoveries that are «convenient» or encouraging to one's lifestyle, livelihood, or deeply - held beliefs.

Some of the pre-existing values will themselves derive from collective deceptions, so across a population ISk would be modulated depending on the rival or ally status of the newer culture25.

So a particular individual may indeed express ISk in one domain yet not another, but this is a function of his / her values, not the lack of capability for innate skepticism generally.

Indeed Shermer's recommendation to investigate the sources of claims to help establish truth / untruth, is a slip into ISk.

So per section 6 each of these relationships attenuates or sharpens ISk, which protects our precious identity and aspirations.

(Equivalently, cultural beliefs are conceptually an emotive part of identity that restrains the ISk against them30).

Mechanisms like CIE are part of the nitty gritty details of the innate skepticism and identity protective story, because ISk protects against CIE, yet ISk is modulated by cultural values.

So ISk can be thought of as cultural resistance to that which threatens our identity; a useful model (per section 1 invoked by L2016) although it tends to make us think more about those with opposed rather than merely unaligned values.

ISk works independently of detailed domain knowledge, but not independently of pre-existing social values and aspirations.

While PSk / SSk are both objective (in theory, so if for instance ISk doesn't intrude), it seems to me that the latter works more with real world issues and experimental methodology, whereas the former is more in the domain of isolated reason, often dealing with issues about which experiments can not even be currently formed.

The ISk of ardent believers will be disabled (within domain), though indeed via the social policing that cultures support they will deride challengers, as you note.

As noted in section 3 ISk is the only framework via which the uninitiated public can interpret and judge the many competing claims and alleged uncertainties, the often obscured loyalties of information and funding sources, plus all the other domain complexities associated with a scientific theory or discovery that becomes socially contentious.

So ISk can be undermined, as the powerful sway of many cultures makes clear.

Apt ISk is no guarantor of good behavior!

So the process of building the big picture is very vulnerable to warring beliefs and ISk.

When challenged, he saw no issue with breaking the TOS (he DID buy ISK, even if he then manipulated the PayPal system to avoid payment) and perpetrating electronic fraud, justifying it by saying Paypal does not guarantee sales involving virtual goods (which isn't exactly an inarguable statement, as Terra Nova regulars will know... it's more of SOME virtual goods, not all).