Sentences with phrase «rather than a hypothesis»

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When you discover your error, rather than firing executives and / or creating a crisis, you simply change the hypotheses.

To test the thesis of the power of prayer and the notion that learning is product «God's gifts» rather than humanity's strivings, pray for a proof, disproof or proof of the undecidability of the Riemann hypothesis.

Their distrust of religious symbols, myths and teleological hypotheses is bound up with a failure to consider the possibility of a primary kind of perception in which beauty, value, significance and purpose constitute ontologically «real» data of experience rather than products of wishful thinking.

«39 The authors suggest that perhaps «cohumanity,» rather than heterosexuality, is the intended focus of these passages, but even they do not find this hypothesis to be totally adequate.

I take it as established that, for Bergson, calculus is more than just a handy metaphor or analogy, but rather, he indeed aimed at framing an approach to the organicist world hypothesis that employs the calculus as its actual method of discovery (i.e., differentiation) and explanation (i.e., integration), and that every discovery is the inverse of an explanation and every explanation the derivative of a discovery.

Which probably explains why many atheists are attracted to science: most of us were raised in a religious environment, and rather than proving the religion's hypothesis, we instead gathered proof and then when we got a different result than the Church taught, we said «hang on a second...» We're naturally inclined towards empirical Methodology.

Even though the voice's enthusiasm for the world of higher motion seems to have suspended my own doubts, it is disturbing to think how easily a skeptical oyster could argue from all this that ballerinas do not exist, but rather are nothing more than a distracting hypothesis invented by oysters who can not face the grimness of existence without flinching.

But since the theory is presented authoritatively rather than as a tentative system of hypotheses, «theory» seems too weak, and «ideology,» better.

Whether metaphysical forces have any causal relationship to this anthropological hypothesis, and subsequent developments, is a question of faith rather than probabilities.

But neither by being exemplified in all experiences, because the very hypothesis at issue is whether all experiences are to be interpreted according to this hypothesis rather than some other.

6 While some variation of the «vitalist» hypothesis appears necessary in historical perspective, the recent findings of Nobel - laureate chemist Ilya Prigogine regarding the tendency toward self - organization and greater complexity in dissipative chemical structures shows that the evolution of complexity is itself compatible with, rather than contrary to the general physical principles of thermodynamics.

In view of the scarcity of the historical evidence, it is surely legitimate to indulge in hypothetical reconstruction of the provenance of the tradition, even though much of the hypothesis, brilliant and attractively presented as it is, remains a matter of speculation — that is, it is an interpretation of the surviving evidence rather than a discovery of further evidence.

Instead the Church ruled his theories to be a «mathematical hypothesis» rather than a reality that could threaten how some interpreted doctrine.

Rather than using the scientific method to test the hypothesis that torture doesn't work, we should consider whether or not a culture of torture belongs in the kind of society we want to build.

Bryan shrewdly described evolution as a hypothesis — «millions of guesses strung together» — rather than proven theory.

As we found, single people had the same levels of attachment, but tended to rely more on friends, relatives, etc. rather than romantic partners (which was also one of our hypotheses).

Since this is a hypothetical question, rather than dispute the premise of the hypothesis, let's suppose for the sake of the question, the strongest and worst possible case.

«The amyloid hypothesis became such a strong scientific orthodoxy that it began to be accepted on the basis of faith rather than evidence,» says Zaven Khachaturian, president of the non-profit campaign Prevent Alzheimer's Disease 2020, and former coordinator of Alzheimer's - related activities at the US National Institutes of Health.

«This in many ways has been an exploration, rather than a classic hypothesis testing experiment,» Juniper says.

Manton also noted Schrödinger's use of the term code - script, but she took it to mean «the sum of hereditary material» rather than a particular hypothesis about gene structure and function.

They might infer, «I bet the hypothesis is that the backpack will affect how I see the slant of the hill,» so they might say the slant is 25 degrees, rather than 20.

Rather than using complex computer models to estimate the effects of greenhouse - gas emissions, Lovejoy examines historical data to assess the competing hypothesis: that warming over the past century is due to natural long - term variations in temperature.

It is a fundamental requirement of scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world, rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.

Rather than conclusive causes, Britton described the influencing factors the research identified as «testable hypotheses» of what might impact a meditator's trajectory.

However, Sandel et al. focus on results that support their hypothesis, rather than testing it against its most obvious competitor: that endemic species occur in places where contemporary patches of climatically appropriate habitat are small.

This hypothesis is also based on the assumption that for the ancestors of recent insects, the ability to detect odor molecules in the air rather than dissolved in water was of vital importance.

That hypothesis also has the benefit of explaining why the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia are higher than they should be, rather than having more fully weathered away over the last 480 million years.

According to Neil Buckholtz, director of the NIA Division of Neuroscience, the investment reflects a shift toward trying to prevent the disease before it ravages the brain, rather than reverse its effects, and a commitment to testing the amyloid hypothesis properly.

Worse, Lentini says, many investigators set out trying to prove an established theory of the crime, rather than ruling out hypotheses with the help of models and experiments, as Torero does.

Research in support of this hypothesis, theoretical and empirical, has focused on the possible kindred advantages of post-reproductive life and if such contributions are sufficient to explain the maintenance of menopause [2], [40], [53]--[58], as they would have to overcome the twofold cost for a grandmother to raise each grandchild rather than one of her own.

We used a false discovery rate rather than standard significance measures to avoid an inflated false - positive rate as a consequence of the large number of hypothesis tests (42).

This narrow view has been becoming overshadowed by genetic findings that support the more recent hypothesis of complex roots, which emphasizes lateral genetic exchanges or horizontal gene transfers (HGT) rather than vertical mutational progression in the development of nucleated organisms, through a clearly defined «tree of life» (Mark Buchanan, New Scientist, January 26, 2010).

Our results call into question the current emphasis on social rather than ecological explanations for the evolution of large brains in primates and evoke a range of ecological and developmental hypotheses centred on frugivory, including spatial information storage, extractive foraging and overcoming metabolic constraints.

The task was optimized for investigation of the abilities to infer another person's social emotions and beliefs distinctively so as to test the hypothesis that oxytocin improves deficit in inferring others» social emotions rather than beliefs, under conditions without direct emotional cues.

Nuts vary widely between high n - 3 walnuts to high SFA macadamias and a past NutritionFacts video shares the hypothesis that its their magnesium content, rather than fat content per se, that accounts for their well established cardiac health benefits.

The other hypothesis is that the physiologic response to IF (rather than the response to prolonged fasting) is to increase my REE during the period of IF, possibly through the up - and or down - regulation of various hormones.

Obviously, it's my hypothesis that the most important epigenetic factor is the quality (rather than quantity) of food we now consume.

Rather than considering the possibility that the lipid hypothesis might be false, the investigators concluded that «men who have had myocardial infarction are not a good choice for testing the lipid hypothesis.»

The idea of a critical timeframe in which hormone therapy may help, rather than hurt, is emerging as a leading hypothesis to explain the seemingly contradictory results of past studies on hormone use.

Nevertheless, the general pattern of results was surprisingly consistent and, overall, supported Hypothesis 2, which predicted that degree of involvement in online dating increases (rather than decreases) with age.

Finally, several participants were observed demonstrating simulations, rather than involving students in forming and testing hypotheses or predictions.

We suspect those buyers defect from their Fortes and Optimas into more premium mass - market brands rather than lay out long green for a Kia (witness dismal sales of the brand's upscale Cadenza and K900 sedans for further proof of this hypothesis).

Put another way, the hypothesis was that increased correlations were a systemic change caused by the rise of passive investing, rather than a cyclical change that was likely to mean revert.

The central hypothesis of the explanation - based view is that the decision maker constructs a summary story of the evidence and then uses this story, rather than the original raw evidence, to make their final decision.

Is it not the responsibility of scientists to attempt to disprove a null hypothesis and debunk myths rather than assuming that a treatment has a desired effect?

Our results support the hypothesis that dog breed popularity has been primarily determined by fashion rather than function.

The mind should get rid of the feeling that it alone must change while being can not change; the mind will train itself to vary being rather than varying itself, the mind will train itself to move through a space in which being is variable and never anything but a hypothesis, the mind will practice using its ability to provide its own fulcrums wherever it wishes, it will learn to rely on illusion, to create the ground on which it walks.

It seems like it would be easy to test this sort of hypothesis in a simple EBM attribution study like Crowley 2000 rather than as an isolated phenomenon as above and in Scafetta & West.

It's sole purpose is to serve as a comparison to your hypothesized model / hypothesis, because statistical techniques are inherently comparative rather than absolute.

Therefore, when the fundamental hypothesis is sound finding an error is not that big a deal and in fact most of the time correcting errors should strengthen rather than weaken any bottom line conclusion that aligns with reality.