Sentences with phrase «on human observation»

Diagnoses become more objective because patients no longer have to depend solely on human observation.

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We all have little voices in our heads - some more than others, based on my very unscientific observations of humans over the years.

Language would not exist without humanity, it is derived from human thought and meaning; while the sun would go on burning with or without us, our observations, or our thoughts about it.

You're just putting your faith in our human powers of observation and believe that what we have thought up based on those observations is correct.

Leaning on Winnicott's observation that the human infant is born «an artist and a hedonist,» Dykstra believes that preaching has suffered from the rejection of these identities by most clergy.

I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»

Hawaii — I must have misunderstood then because I didn't realize that mathematics could be applied to the statement made by Romans which was an observation on his part that there seems to be a strong link among atheists, human secularism and polical left leanings.

Psychologists David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, in The Caveman and the Bomb: Human Nature, Evolution, and Nuclear War (McGraw - Hill, 1985), express this view with their useful observation that «the nuclear arms race goes on because people allow it» (p. 22, their emphasis).

It's a neat way to think about it, and also points to a collective - personality with a memory and an interaction that takes place between individuals, almost a meta - observation on what it means to be human, if you will.

That there is a constitutive relation of asymmetrical dependence of the evaluative features of specifically human experience on its valuational features such that something like what Ogden calls «existential faith» is invariably involved in human existence is a conceptual observation (TPT 71f).

In various ways wise men and women have shown their conviction, based on their own experience and observation, that the stuff of which humans are made is good stuff and that human potentiality remains a good potentiality.

Based on observation, as scientists likes to say, are you not created in the likeness of your human parents?

If what you stated is true, how can one claim that the Bible is not factual based on observation, when it comes to humans, animals, plants, trees, etc, being produced according to their likeness?

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.

I do indeed stand on the distinction between a priori (or metaphysical) and empirical in the sense given this distinction by Popper, except that, whereas Popper defines empirical as «conceivably falsifiable by observation» and apparently limits observation to certain forms of human perception, I sometimes include divine perception (in Whitehead's language, God's physical prehensions).

This is a perceptive observation which brings a properly human focus to bear on the question of the pleasure of marital intercourse.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

But one observation is essential and irrefutable based on centuries of empirical evidence: In this fallen world, no other economic system leads to broadly distributed human flourishing remotely on the scale of capitalism.

What we assumed to be the laws of nature, which we humans cleverly discovered, turn out to be human judgements based on observation, experiment and measurement.

I am struck with the observation that perhaps the reason Mark ended his Gospel on this strange note of fear was «to emphasize human inadequacy, lack of understanding, and weakness in the presence of supreme divine action and its meaning.»

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.

Dettwyler reviewed research on weaning in non-human primates and extrapolated from those observations to determine that the «natural» age of weaning of humans should be 2.5 - 7 years.

When the ban on human dissections was lifted for a few decades, a doctor named Herophilus opened up hundreds of bodies and made detailed observations, all of which were lost when fire destroyed the famed Library of Alexandria.

I always suspected that Neandertals and anatomically modern humans interbred, based on a simple observation: humans are the most sexual of all the primates, willing and able to do it just about anywhere, anytime, with anyone (and even with other species if the Kinsey report is to be believed in its findings about farmhands and their animal charges).

«We created the largest database of surface ozone from hourly observations at more than 4,800 monitoring sites worldwide, and we're making these data freely available to anyone who wants to investigate the impact of ozone on human health, vegetation, and climate.»

Experiments and observations may be conducted on humans, animals, cell cultures, chemical platforms, etc..

Around the same time, another psychiatrist, John Bowlby, penned his now - canon observations about the central importance of attachment for the social and psychological development of young humans, reminding us that we are just another part of a chain of mammals that depend on the care of others for survival.

In contrast, observations in humans report on dozens of patients and an order of magnitude more data than in monkeys.»

Scientists can confidently say that Earth is warming due to greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, but data on climate trends over the Antarctic and the surrounding Southern Ocean only go back to 1979 when regular satellite observations began.

Britain has a long - standing policy of avoiding any programs of the European Space Agency that involve human spaceflight, focusing its efforts on robotic science missions, earth observation, and the commercial exploitation of space.

The scientific payloads on Dragon include investigations that focus on efficient ways to grow plants in space, demonstrating laser optics to communicate with Earth, human immune system function in microgravity and Earth observation.

After taking measurements and collecting observations on nine living primate species, including humans, Carrier concluded that the living apes with the shortest legs for their body size, like gorillas and orangutans, are those that spend the least time in trees.

Deakin University and UNSW Australia researchers have made a rare observation of rapid evolution in action in the wild, documenting the spread of a newly arisen genetic mutation in invasive starlings, which could shed light on mitochondrial disease in humans.

The STR is also campaigning to remove content about «the evolution of humans» and «the adaptation of finch beaks based on habitat and mode of sustenance», a reference to one of the most famous observations in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Specieon habitat and mode of sustenance», a reference to one of the most famous observations in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of SpecieOn the Origin of Species.

Based on the observation that obese mice, rats, and humans all had elevated serum concentrations of a protein called GDF15 compared to lean controls, Yumei Xiong and colleagues set out to develop therapies derived from the molecule.

Many anthropologists have assumed, based on observations of sometimes polygamous modern - day hunter - gatherers, that the basic social unit of early humans was the band or tribe rather than the family.

In Noordwijk, people work on science missions, on human spaceflight, telecom, satellite navigation, and Earth observation.

The residues altered were selected based on the observation that the three VHH described herein, B9, A14 and B21, bind to the RSC3 probe that was used to isolate the VRC01 - class of human CD4 binding site broadly neutralizing antibodies (Fig. 2) and that previously the introduction of an aromatic residue into the VRC01 - like antibody NIH45 - 46 resulted in increased breadth and potency [38].

Hamilton [1] provided the fundamental theoretical observation that genes imparting deleterious effects on post-reproductive survival will accumulate, yet human females experience menopause.

For example, in a session on human vaccine trials, Glenda Gray from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa reported the somewhat surprising observation that T - cell responses to vaccines can differ depending on gender and body mass index.

Maintaining observation programs will make it possible to assess the effects of human - induced changes on the capacity of these seas to uptake and store anthropogenic CO2.

This observation implies that humans can thrive on a wide range of carbohydrate intakes, but it does not imply that anyone in any circumstance can live on a diet that is virtually free of carbohydrate, and it does not imply that carbohydrate is not important.

It is long on observations made on humans and animals and EMF's.

About Blog Transverse (adj. «situated, arranged, or acting in a crosswise manner») Markings (n. «observations») provides one person's theological commentary on matters divine and human.

Its blog, OKTrends, compiles observations from hundreds of millions of real people's interactions on the site, revealing an unprecedented look into human behavior.

Downsizing sees Payne and Taylor working on a larger palette than usual, but like their shrunken characters, the filmmakers» humor and their sharp observation of the human condition have survived the change in size and scope.

The story, while playing like a soap opera on the surface, is chock full of wry human observations while showing great affection for its characters.

It's a film about human nature, personally realized with subtle observations, and how much of this you can relate to will greatly depend on you.

Perhaps being ignored because the film is too unobtrusive and relaxed in its observations of primal human interaction to register against weightier fare at this time of year, Zachariah is at its most immediate when focused on Robbie's precise acting choices.