Sentences with phrase «of alternative assumptions»

EIA explores the impacts of alternative assumptions about oil prices in a low - oil - price scenario and a high - oil - price scenario.

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This estimate is based largely on the assumption that bitcoin can increase its share of the «alternative currency» market, which is mostly gold, from 0.7 % to 5 %.

Or did they adequately test the assumptions of the strategy and review alternatives to it?

In 2008, for example, the assumption based on his campaign platform was that President Obama would put gunmakers out of business, turn health care providers into wards of the state, and usher in a golden era for alternative energy.

There appears to have been an assumption that this disclosure is required, because these funds constitute «Designated Investment Alternatives,» a term defined by the applicable disclosure regulations as «an investment alternative designated by the plan into which participants and beneficiaries may direct the investment of assets held in, or contributed to, their individual accounts.»

That means I of course assume I exist, and further, the universe is in some way consistent with itself, but I'd prefer to make those assumptions than the alternative that nothing I see is real.

The fallacy of such reasoning is clear once we see that atheism is not the only alternative to the assumptions which generate the absolutistic paradoxes.

Environmental philosophy is a growing subdiscipline within Western philosophy, characterized by the assumption that traditional Western metaphysics and moral theory are inadequate to the solution of environmental problems and that in our age alternative, ecological world views and axiologies are needed.

Population planning for «development,» it seems, is easiest to envision under the assumptions of total technological stasis, absence of social change, and rigid restriction of social choices and alternatives.

Nevertheless Kuhn still maintains that the most fruitful strategy of normal science is to develop and exploit the prevailing tradition, extending its scope and accuracy; the examination of assumptions and the search for alternatives, he holds, seldom occurs except during major crises.31

I think Cobb would agree that the only alternative to this position leads to a lack of self - consciousness about one's philosophical assumptions and thus induces a false security as to the adequacy of one's theological formulations.

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

Indeed, the purpose and pleasure of a journal is in engaging alternative assumptions.

Perhaps we were prevented from raising the question of alternatives because of an implicit assumption that there existed an American model which all these nations were wrongheaded enough to reject.

This final part of Griffin's argument for the process theodicy turns on an assumption that he appears to have borrowed by Hartshorne, viz., that the so - called «social view» of omnipotence is the only alternative to the monopolistic (and thus to the standard) view.9 The critique of the latter thus established the former as (in Griffin's words) «the only view that is coherent if one is talking about the power a being with the greatest conceivable amount of power could have over a created, i.e. an actual world» (GPE 269).

True, yesterday's arguments sometimes look a little odd in today's fashion of environmentalism, but then one remembers that the alternative would be a perhaps painful reexamination of assumptions to which many have attached their identities.

Searle's account of consciousness, in short, merely throws doubt on the wisdom of his initial assumption — that there are only two alternatives for tackling the problem of consciousness: either search for a causal theory or succumb to some sort of vicious Cartesian dualism.

In practice, as we have seen, they offer no real alternative but instead operate with many of the same assumptions and techniques as the psychological model.

But critics showed that discordant data alone have seldom been taken to falisfy an accepted theory in the absence of an alternative theory; instead, auxiliary assumptions have been modified, or the discrepancies have been set aside as anomalies.

This assumption is still dominant, but the practical distortions it has introduced into the actual course of «development» have finally become so apparent that an alternative measure of the success of policies has been proposed by the Overseas Development Council.

The latter alternative faced a major hurdle: France's tradition of rigorously anticlerical separation of church and state was based on the assumption that Catholicism and democratic republicanism were fundamentally opposed.

The assumption, sometimes tacitly made, that socialism is the alternative to capitalism, should be re-examined through a critique of both.

After the murder of the Caliph Uthman, the civil war, and the murder of the Caliph Ali, it is difficult to see any alternative to the assumption of the Caliphate by Mu`awiya and the establishment of the principle of hereditary succession.

In spite of these excellent results, there remains a common assumption that because mothers living with HIV in industrialized countries such as Europe, North America and Australia have access to clean water and safe infant feeding alternatives, breastfeeding avoidance is free from risk.

«Mr. Walker's voluntary assumption of the risk should bar the plaintiff's recovery or, in the alternative, should reduce the plaintiff's right to recovery from the PCNA in an amount equivalent to Mr.Walker's fault.»

My assumption is that the mafia plays a decisive role in determining the destination of collected municipal waste in order to gain profit from illegal disposal, and that, by doing so, it behaves as a (bad) alternative provider of a public service.

The assumption was that the state Senate would eventually just come on board since they had no alternative to mayoral control and most of the Senate Republicans do not hail from New York City anyway.

The case for that rests on the assumption that there is «no alternative», which is at odds with the views of many leading economists.

Under the assumption of equal caring, we take it that someone's preference for their first choice over all other alternatives should carry equal weight as a preference to their next - to - worst preference versus what they like least.

Long - held assumptions about our place in the cosmos could be skewing our view of it — but is there a viable alternative, asks Chris Clarkson

In the case of recalcitrant evidence, it is never clear whether scientists should go for the option of modifying the auxiliary assumptions (e.g., number of planets, as in the case of Neptune), or for the alternative option of revising the main theoretical hypotheses themselves (e.g., from Newtonian mechanics to general relativity, as in the case of the anomalous perihelion of Mercury).

Smil has forced climate advocates to reckon with the vast inertia sustaining the modern world's dependence on fossil fuels, and to question many of the rosy assumptions underlying scenarios for a rapid shift to alternatives.

The research offers a more complex, alternative view of current assumptions in climate change communication.

LEAs may use for this purpose either the same source of data used to select and allocate funds among public schools (i.e., usually free or free and reduced - price school lunch data) or one of a specified range of alternatives, such as data from an income survey of private school families, private school scholarship applications, or estimates based on the assumption that the percentage of students attending a private school who are from low - income families is the same as that for public school students who reside in the same geographic area.

The implied assumptions of the aforementioned linear formula are overly simplistic given the nonrandomness of the teacher candidate population... If teacher candidates who enroll in a traditional teacher education program are arguably different from teacher candidates who enroll in an alternative program, and both groups are compared once they become teachers, one group might have a distinct and unfair advantage over the other... What can not be overlooked, controlled for, or dismissed from these comparative investigations are teachers» enduring qualities that go beyond their preparation (Boyd et al., 2006; Boyd, Grossman, Lankford, Loeb, & Wyckoff, 2007; Harris & Sass, 2007; Shulman, 1988; Wenglinsky, 2002).

Superintendents, on behalf of their board of education, must indicate their decision regarding approach to implementation (existing assumption or alternative) by the April 15, 2013, proposal deadline for review and approval by the CSDE.

It is a call to better action — action based on a collaborative analysis of fundamental assumptions that gives full consideration to many problem - solving alternatives and uses a wide lens to reflect on complex issues.

Mainstream literary fiction, we can assume, has different assumptions and associations, and its readers are more reluctant to explore alternative modes of publication (Where does that conclusion come from?

Prior to joining Schroders, Duncan was a principal in the Global Asset Allocation team at Aon Hewitt, where he was responsible for the development of the firm's long term strategic capital market assumptions, and driving its medium term asset allocation views across the full range of traditional and alternative asset classes.

Granted, such a prediction would be entirely pinned on the assumptions of mean reversion (to 6 % growth p / a, and to a CAPE of 15), but it might provide an alternative (or at least discussion worthy) means of testing the predictions of the model.

Ubisoft's Child of Light is here to change that assumption by providing a low - priced downloadable alternative.

The works continue her efforts to challenge societal assumptions about beauty, offering an alternative to the airbrushed, artificial depictions of women generated by advertising and media.

Of course, neither of the above assumptions are likely to be true, since global oil supply and demand elasticity are not zero — alternative sources (some cleaner, some not) will replace some oil not produced if you could prevent oil sands production, and some reduction will occur in total global oil demanOf course, neither of the above assumptions are likely to be true, since global oil supply and demand elasticity are not zero — alternative sources (some cleaner, some not) will replace some oil not produced if you could prevent oil sands production, and some reduction will occur in total global oil demanof the above assumptions are likely to be true, since global oil supply and demand elasticity are not zero — alternative sources (some cleaner, some not) will replace some oil not produced if you could prevent oil sands production, and some reduction will occur in total global oil demand.

Today both assumptions are being undermined by the risks of the post-9 / 11 world and by technological progress in fuel efficiency and alternative fuels.

Traditionally, population projections have included two or more alternative scenarios, both to acknowledge the intrinsic uncertainty of the middle scenario and to offer an assessment of the sensitivity of projected trends to changes in underlying assumptions, in particular with regard to fertility.

The divide between supply - and demand - side policies is a byproduct of mainstream economic assumptions and academic disputes that some heterodox economists criticize, yet have not yet presented an alternative causal model of business and sectoral development.

In fact, under reasonable alternative assumptions, one of the models used to estimate the SCC provides a negative estimate of the SCC — implying that there are net benefits to global warming, which would argue for subsidizing, not taxing, CO2 emissions.

In addition a dependence of one variable on x was derived from the assumption that certain other variables do not depend on x for a system where we know actually that either all are independent of x or all depend on x, the alternative assumed in the paper is not just unjustified, it's wrong.

We believe this view is based on a series of outdated and misguided assumptions about the economic viability of coal, the competitiveness of alternatives and security of supply concerns.

To better understand the potential of emissions policies, studies are needed that assess possible future health impacts under alternative assumptions about future emissions and climate across multiple spatial scales.