Sentences with phrase «on naive»

And criminals depend on naive property owners, landlords, and property managers who lack a good system to verify work needed and statements of work done.

My bust, I always get screwed when I buy things based on a naive expectation of mutual fairness.

For instance, many people appear to (incorrectly) think that attribution is just based on a naive correlation of the global mean temperature, or that it is impossible to do unless a change is «unprecedented» or that the answers are based on our lack of imagination about other causes.

The ocean surface varies in reflectivity and height from moment to moment, and precise calculation of tide variations and heights on a moment to moment basis etc is impossible, being based on naive persistence forecasts of past data.

No one sensible is suggesting LOD causes climate -LRB-... but that IS the favorite pretend - misunderstanding we repeatedly see engineered by those preying on the naive).

And that's just the beginning of your conceptual problems: relying on a naive conception of falsificationnism, challenging people with ad hoc criterias, using a terminology that estrange your eventual logical apparatus, etc..

The problem with climate change science is it relies on naive inductivism rather than the method of hypothesis.

The portraiture of Elizabeth I ignored contemporary European Renaissance models to create iconic images that border on naive art.

After attending college in Chicago for five years, I packed my bags, hopped on the Naive Idiot Dream Train and moved to New York.

There are more predators out there feeding on naive writers than there are successful authors.

This is a new writing scam that preys on naive indie authors with Hollywood dreams.

All the winners were promised publication in a special book by, you guessed it, Outskirts Press, which was probably counting on the naive winners spending their award money on copies.

These companies prey on the naive writers who haven't informed themselves enough or know any better.

These contracts were usually offered on a «take - it - or - leave - it» basis by larger entities who, recognizing their unequal baragining position, offered non-negotiable contracts (the very nature of a contract is that it should represent the negotiations of the parties) that sought to force their unreasonable terms on naive authors and novice publishers, so eager to be published and distributed that they skimmed by the small print.

People who see an easy opportunity for capitalizing on we naive creatives, are now jumping on the publishing bandwagon as they did to social media.

Print On Demand (POD) technology is often mislabeled «Publish On Demand,» which consequently associates it with the Vanity Publishing world; a realm inhabited by a few reputable operators and a large number of scammers waiting to prey on naive writers.

No matter how you slice it, poop is still poop, and vanity publishing is a big wad of it that preys on the naive newbie and gullible authors.

He didn't seize the opportunity to prey on a naive girl and make me a bad deal.

I'd suspect this is due to the accessibility of the internet and the ease of capitalizing on naive individuals desperately searching for answers.

Shame on you naive fans that still confused that the cowardly board are having any impact on what's happening on the pitch, that's ok, but I happen to think there's a direct correlation between those people and the fact that despite more money and greater resources we have become less competitive.

Those influenced by Rousseau often begin with a bias against civil religion on the grounds that it is or easily can be an idolatrous fraud perpetrated on naive believers.

Contemporary atheist objections to Christianity are often posed with an intellectual smugness which implies that religious belief is based on naive and even delusional optimism.

Not exact matches

A lot of people think that negotiating means simply trying to get a better price on things, but that's very naive — there is a lot more to it than that.

Faisall isn't a fossil collector — he's a seven - year - old kid from the U.K. who was playing Jurassic World: The Game on his unsuspecting father's tablet and who, with a few naive taps, authorized 60 in - app purchases in his quest to upgrade his digital herd.

By giving this jewel away to the Canadians with nothing in return — changes to NAFTA, beneficial fishing rights in the Atlantic, or just about anything else — President Trump shows just how naive he is when it comes to doing big deals on the world stage.

The ACCC must be very naive indeed to accept the Water Corporations innocent explanation, they have been taken to task on hundreds of occasions about their claims that the Kwinana RO Plant was run exclusively on renewable energy.

Who ever invented the term Internet Service Provider either had no idea just how diverse the Internet market would become, or was naive enough to think a single supplier could provide all the services necessary for businesses to do business on the net.

The Global Times, an influential tabloid published by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, said in an editorial that Trump was «naive like a child on diplomacy» and that the «one China» policy «could not be bought or sold».

And US federal regulation is the product of the naive view that we read and actively assent to the privacy policies on the websites we visit.

WikiLeaks cables prove Omar Khadr was no naive bystander, while Syria cracks down hard on protesters

And an official who insisted on being clean would be seen as either dangerously naive or up to something, a Frank Serpico among dirty cops.

If there are no guard rails to prevent another Mt. Gox, then thinking someone would bring their retirement savings on to the blockchain is naive.

The Thai regulator approved a tax on the trade in cryptocurrency, allegedly in order to protect «naive merchants» from the loss of personal funds.

It must always be remembered that the buyers are no longer naive and are doing a tremendous amount of research on your company.

One of the articles on post truth politics said its naive for us to expect the media to «call foul» and penalize right wing parties for lying and rejecting all attempts at compromise, because the media won't do it (as Jean's op - ed in the Herald demonstrates), so we and the few progressive media outlets left in this country need to do it ourselves.

But on Wednesday, when Zuckerberg took questions from reporters for 45 minutes on a conference call to address his latest scandal — the Cambridge Analytica privacy fiasco — he didn't come across as defensive, unapologetic or naive.

It actually just seems an avoidance strategy so they can focus on consuming coupled with the most naive empiricistic scientism conceivable.

«The chanciness is part of the lasting magic of gay life,» writes Browning, «a sort of radical plot twist that characterizes queer life and sets aside so many conventions of social judgment, class, race, and attitude, supplanting them with a direct and naive faith that bonds of great value can be forged on nothing more than instinct....

To blame all the world's problems on religion and spirituality is naive at best and willful ignorance at worst.

Come on people, don't be naive...

On this properly ontological level of this originally Aristotelian treatment, which Mason does not seem to put in question, Heidegger would point out a naive and inexplicit» commitment to disclosedness against the horizon of ecstatic - temporal presence (Anwesenheit, parousia)-- which is something very different from believing in the «instantaneous now.»

The cultural perceptions of love speak so loud, in fact, and with such consistency that we would be naive to think we don't enter into romantic relationships with a picture based largely on our surroundings.

If he thinks the atheist community is rallying around him due to any «kindness of heart» on their parts, he's either very naive or delusional.

The earliest fathers were often somewhat naive, somewhat childlike in some ways, but those qualities enabled them to hold on to the truth they had learned from the Apostles and apostolic men with a ferocity that I doubt would be much reflected in our day under similar persecutions.

To blame the worlds problems on Religion instead of human error, greed and corruption, and warmongering, is indeed naive.

The attitude of Western man to linear time is, generally speaking, naive; time is seen as an infinitely long straight line on which the individual can mark such past and future events as he can ascertain.

In contrast to utter pessimism and a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness on the one hand, and a naive optimism on the other hand, the Bible proclaims a message of hope for the whole creation.

Similarly, a view of time that goes on and on without change of form is a static and naive view.

In his main work, Difference and Repetition (1968), he has shown why the conception of concrete immediacy in and between occasions must not be considered naive in a post-Hegelian sense, but post-Hegelian altogether.15 In order to achieve this aim, Deleuze replaces the categorization of the world into the general and the individual in favor of the distinction of the universal and the singular.16 On the level of abstraction, «mediation» describes the analysis of that which is subjected to a «law.»

Far from being an outmoded vestige of a naive liturgical past, baptism is devastatingly contemporary — a revolutionary manifesto that subverts many of the values on which we have sold ourselves in the past few years.