Sentences with phrase «physical explanation as to»

In suggesting climate shifts as the cause, the authors offer no physical explanation as to why the warming sun and cooling aerosols didn't have their expected effect?

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3Pethaps some further explanation is needed of the manner in which a society as a unified field of activity serves as the medium for the transmission of physical feelings and conceptual patterns from one generation of occasions to another.

However, the continuity of structure and function from nonliving matter to living and from the simplest forms of life to the most complicated strongly suggests that even the most characteristic human activities such as thought and consciousness have an explanation, as yet only partly known, in chemical and physical phenomena.

Scientism claims that the natural world is all there is, that supernatural explanations of the world are irrational, that everything can be reduced to physical causes, and that the only things we can know as true are those which Science reveals — supported by evidence, submitted to experimentation, and reviewed by peers.

Polanyi seems so convinced of the impossibility of the physical explanation of these biological constraints that he often appears to be speaking as a vitalist.

With this latter proviso, Kim provides a possible opening for a form of compatibilism: Rationalizing explanations may be compatible with physical explanations, but only if they can be regarded as reducible to them.

Whitehead concludes: «For this reason, it would be better — so far as explanation is concerned — to abandon the term «distance» for this integral, and to call it by some such name as «impetus» suggestive of its physical import» (PR 507).

My explanation of it is this: the subject works his emotions up to the breaking point, at the same time resisting their physical manifestations, such as quickened pulse, etc., and then suddenly lets them have their full sway over his body.

Thus, the motion of the pendulum is taken as the standard, as a more suitable «approximation» to the uniform time flow of absolute time, and some physical explanation is then sought to account for the seasonal variation of the solar day relative to this standard.18 Were standards other than the pendulum chosen as operating «more uniformly,» then the pendulum would be abandoned in favor of a «more uniform approximation» to absolute time.

At the end of the last decade, string theory was being touted as the best route to a master explanation for all the physical laws in the universe.

Where Bohm developed concepts such as implicate and explicate order to explain the wave particle duality, Bell explained that no complete explanation of the quantum behavior of particles is possible within what we normally think of as the physical universe.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

In discussing the limited evidence for the «probable» link between red meat and colorectal cancer, the WHO itself concedes that it is not possible to rule out other explanations (which it helpfully describes as «chance, bias or confounding»).2 Harcombe agrees, arguing that even when studies strive to adjust statistically for baseline differences in relevant factors such as socioeconomic status, body mass index, physical activity, smoking status and diabetes, it is impossible to grapple fully with all the factors that differentiate «the couch potato» from «the paleo buff» (her ideal), or to take into account the «chasm» that separates fresh and traditionally preserved meats from modern manufactured meat products.9

While part of the reason for the bad behavior is simply the ability to express one's self without fear of physical consequences, there may be explanations rooted in science as well.

You will need to fill out an extensive medical history as part of your application, undergo a physical exam, provide explanations of any risk factors or conditions you currently have, ranging from obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes, to more serious issues such as kidney disease, COPD, heart disease, among others.

In the end, the most plausible explanation as to why the dogs were destroyed has to be for the purpose of avoiding criminal charges. Clearly, the dogs could not be turned over to a shelter or rescue for fear of a criminal prosecution and their years as farmers gave the Zimmerman brothers the knowledge that through the process of natural decomposition it would indeed be difficult to ascertain the physical condition of the dogs on the day of the inspection once they had been dead and buried for several days.

This alludes to the physical nature of Moffett's works, but perhaps a better explanation of the emotional and intellectual impacts of his projection paintings would be describing them as a cross between people - watching at an airport and viewing a classical oil in a dimly lit cathedral.

Since carbon dioxide is ruled out as cause the only reasonable physical explanation boils down to ocean currents.

One would assume there will be public requests for an explanation as to physical cause when there is cooling.

In perspective, given the time scale involved, a 100 years is short, climate fluctates, it occurs rapidly, and is merely a regular physical phenomenon, even though, as the above gentlemen have pointed out, is still a mystery as far as adequate explanation by sound theory is wanting — which is altogether different to what the boosters of AGW assert as science, theory, and evidence.

In classical terms, this can be described as adhering to Newton's 3 laws, but ignoring (with purpose) the potential physical explanations.

If the authors don't provide a solid physical explanation for why we should no longer expect to see the observed quadratic trend we have been seeing since 1850 and instead expect no more than a linear trend after 2000, the paper would appear to fall flat on its face (at least as concerns its conclusions that climate sensitivity should be about 1/3 what the IPCC predicts).

Now, as I pointed out before, if anyone has ever been to Byrd, or has seen the pictures on Google Earth, it would be very hard to validate ANY offset between two stations being 2.5 km apart on that deserted ice field without a proper physical explanation.

Merchant adoption in other parts of the country is lower «as we do not have a physical presence there and this needs quite a bit of explanation and push for the merchant to consider accepting bitcoin as a mode of payment,» he detailed.

It is also possible that guitars signify physical abilities, which indicate genetic fitness, but this explanation doesn't make as much sense because a sports bag, which should also be related to physical activity, didn't have the same benefits.