Sentences with phrase «prior theories»
The very language in which observations are reported is influenced by prior theories.
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This new study dispels prior theories that EMSY's activation merely turned off the cancer suppression function of BRCA2, says Jelinic.
One prior theory held that information is slowly transferred into the cortex, but Tonegawa's findings support the alternative idea that cortical engrams are formed immediately but need time to develop.
They have been shown to affect circadian rhythms, the pupillary light reflex, and several other functions related to ambient light... Evidence supports prior theories that melanopsin is... responsible for the entrainment of the central «body clock» in mammals.»
Second, the induction to the new set of laws is not a generalization from particulars; the role of prior theory in guiding observation (of data or selection of uniformities) is accounted for.
Science looks at the world and, through its prior theories and new theories, comes up with explanations for how things are the way that they are.
Barth's warnings against embedding Christian truth claims in any prior theory of knowledge apply in the present case: if Christianity has no eschatological Word to explicate, then we are left only with liberal naturalism and historicism.
A more specific theory has its own independence and integrity; it is not a mere appendage of or auxiliary to something more encompassing, but has its specific determinations and scope which are defined by its subject matter and not exclusively by a prior theory.
New evolutionary theories are usually proposed when it is recognized that the prior theories do not work.
Software of Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS 18) were used to measure the «good model fit» which means the suitability of the model and absolute fit indices follow the criteria of (1) Prior theory, model or hypothesis; (2) Variations; (3) Specification of latent variable; (4) relationship among latent variables; and (5) Control conditions (Schermelleh - Engel, Moosbrugger, & Müller, 2003).