Sentences with phrase «rather naive»

This is off - putting for virtually every hearer... Particularly when, truth be told, however good we are at our science, we're rather naive when it comes to seeing the unanticipated consequences of policy formulation.

The policy logic apparent in the essays critical of my op - ed are rather naive.

Your comments are rather naive and perhaps even a «Concern Troll» attempt to falsely elevate the denialist arguments to equal standing with scientifically supported positions.

The Guardian's rather naive reportage showed denialists trying to position themselves as statesmanly and the true scientists as enjoying the food.

In the complex system we have it seems to me to rather naive to ascribe causation based on movements in two data series alone.

As I've said elsewhere, I think you're rather naive when it comes to the entire so - called «climate debate.»

In case you did nt notice all people here «crying» as you put it own the Tab S (2 years old), which is not the latest tablet on the market, so your rather naive comment that we all here go for the latest to brag fails terribly.

Ty Johnston, I don't see much disdain for self - publishing per se (more power to them, I say), but it seems rather naive (and ultimately counter-productive) to suggest that self - publishing has been an unmitigated boon for everyone concerned.

Indeed, to consider that only some schools have high needs would seem rather naive in today's multifaceted society.

Vikander played the rather naive Kitty.

EC: Another reason was the main character: a serious dramatist, honest, politically engaged, and rather naive.

She went as far as to openly proclaim herself a feminist, splashing rather naive slogans onto t - shirts, not much different from what protesters did in 1968, and yet sticking to a strikingly non-feminist image of women as frail, pale, childlike fairies.

Martin King was extremely modest about his political achievements and rather naive about the intellectual impact he made on the theological world.

I think it's rather naive to believe everything that the family is saying actually happened.

For example, the very existence of the theophanies is significant enough to cast doubt on your rather naive reading of the Torah.

«I do think it's rather naive to think that if you can just get rid of religion, everything will be peaceful and harmonious.»

It's rather naive in a modern economy to presume as the Bible suggests nongovernmental - based aid is that is all required.

Not exact matches

This happened not because CNOOC's executives were stupid, but rather because they were naive.

I don't recall at any time in my life how ill informed and naive people have become and react rather than think.

Still, it's naive to say there's no problem at all here in terms of convincing voters that he's not radically hostile to the minimalist welfare state they'd rather conserve to the extent possible, that he really identifies with the plight of the increasingly contingent and disordered life of the working man and woman.

Unfortunately, I think Rachel's plea to pastors to tell the truth is a naive gesture, one that assumes that Christians find their sense of community in the waters of baptism rather than their shared ideas.

The notion that getting rid of religion would make everything everything hunky dory is a rather impractical and naive notion, since there will always be differences of opinion in which people become very adamant about; it's not just the religious opinions.

The resurrection was attested, in substance at least, in the Q community, in that his word was again to be heard, not as a melancholy recollection of the failed dream of a noble, but terribly naive, person, but rather as the still valid, and constantly renewed, trust in the heavenly Father, who, as in heaven, will rule also on earth.

Naive realism is not plausible if the history of science provides evidence of major paradigm shifts rather than simple cumulation and convergence.

Throughout a rather sickly, sheltered, happy boyhood and a more independent but never obstreperous youth, an ingrained confidence in people — especially older people — and a naive trust in God never wavered.

We acknowledge the eventual technical insufficiency of this naive exclusion principle, which sounds rather like the essential distinction between waves and particles: waves superimpose; particles do not.

It was this naive positivism that Kaplan accepted, rather than, for example, the much more sophisticated views of his philosophical mentor John Dewey, as the basis of his argument for religious naturalism.

Years of heading children's work in the Church yet failing to find love that inspired my children to believe and instead partly finding people who were threatened by my «naive» but rather vibrant faith.

This may sound politically naive and hopelessly committed to reason rather than to power struggles.

Are you so naive as to believe that this is not an attack on Christian beliefs, rather than promoting atheism (which I again still find it ridiculous to promote something as «non-belief»)?

Whitehead's philosophy does not lead to a naive realism; rather it entails a critical realism.

Naive realism is untenable if models are not literal pictures of reality and if the history of science is characterized by major paradigm shifts rather than by simple cumulation or convergence.

I have also indicated that the occurrence of major paradigm shifts, rather than simple cumulation or convergence in the history of science, militates against naive realism.

It wd be naive to expect everyone to have such an imaginative intellect, but at least we cd strive to become «an original voice», rather than a mere echo.Religion by «rote» just won't do.

You would be branded boring but its ok to be winning boring matches 1 - 0 rather than being naive and getting frustrated losing 2 - 0, every once in a while.

It also helps to portray the four «heroes» as childlike and naive, rather than the pantomime evil seen as seen in Team America.

Today's report says ministers had been «at best naive and at worst misleading» in dealing with the issue and concluded that by focusing energy on denying the ombudsman's findings, rather than considering what might be done to help those who lost their savings, the government had «caused further distress to complainants».

Despite the claims of Cameron and Osborne (and that rather politically naive and economically illiterate note left by Liam Byrne), the last Labour government was not profligate, it did not over-spend.

While present - day simulations of the laws of nature are rather primitive, the constraint of finite computational resources implies calculable deviations of observables from naive expectations.

We found that naive T cells transferred into MHC negative or allogeneic environments often fail to survive because of rejection and / or competition by natural killer (NK) cells, rather than failure to recognize a particular MHC allele.

Daniel Huttlestone and Lilla Crawford, the two stage musical performers in the cast, are fantastic additions; Huttlestone's new, younger interpretation of Jack is a smart change to the character, making him naive rather than «simple.»

Tony was a great character, but Melanie Lynskey impressed me the most as this really naive person who makes some rather unconventional decisions.

In other words: taking in all the advice, not getting ruffled when one person called me «naive», and asking a lot more questions about the ex-pats» lives rather than telling my own story.

I don't think they're naive, more so they most likely have a large amount of disposable income and would rather opt for instant gratification than waiting another week.

It might be a bit naive but I would like to think advertising could decorate the city rather than make it uglier.

The exhibition is an attempt to represent «a democratic, transparent and conscious present» rather than through a nostalgic lens of an artists» pre-success being one of naive, less formed or mature practice.

Mirrorscape does not represent a naive realism unaffected by interpretation, but rather an understanding of the interactive processes by which the world is constructed.

Pete # 13, I think the idea is not so much that AMO contributes to the global warming trend, but rather that it overlays the modern temperature record in such a way that a «naive» analysis ignoring it will find a slightly greater trend than is really there.

I note in passing the Wiley site is currently down for maintenance so Hargreaves is not accessible — however from the diagram that can be seen it looks as though the null hypothesis was «no change in temperature» rather than showing it «had substantial skill compared to any naive model.

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