Sentences with phrase «quantitative nature of science»

Others embraced and enjoyed the newfound quantitative nature of science.

I also hope that elementary science experiences are now more reflective of the true quantitative nature of science.

I believe that this true, quantitative nature of science is not well communicated to students in early science instruction.

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Hart correctly emphasizes that for Heidegger thinking is an «attentive awaiting on the mystery of being as such,» while the sciences «are of their nature quantitative investigations of the physical realm» and thus concentrate on measuring extant «things.»

In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116).

Daniele Fanelli is a Leverlhulme research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he uses advanced quantitative methods to help settle long - standing philosophical and sociological debates on the nature of science.

The discussion may be entertaining or instructive but it is not a resident in the realm of science: the study of what exists and its qualitative and quantitative nature.