Sentences with phrase «rather than observation»

Here, Munch showed recent paintings — including The Scream, Madonna and The Vampire — strongly expressive of inner life and experience rather than observation of the physical world.

In Sonic, you must learn through repetition rather than observation.

Teachers have reacted positively to these changes — they appreciate the new focus on their ongoing growth rather than an observation score.

Should I tell you however that your opinion is accurate when it is based upon bias rather than observation?

They are statements of opinion rather than observations of fact.

It looks like it was done in 2013 so those were projections rather than observations.

Previous attempts to estimate this planetary imbalance relied on climate models rather than observations because sufficiently detailed observations were not available then.

While this technique is widely used, it usually provides only anatomical snapshots of tissues or physiological functions such as blood flow rather than observations of the activity of specific cells.

As it happens, AGW is a very highly politicised issue, deals with uncertain predictions based on computer models (rather than observations) and there is a substantial minority of experts, including some IPCC contributors who don't agree with this position.

It continues a dangerous president in climate science to make up data in regions that requires guess work rather than observations.

Not exact matches

In my observation however, there is a greater appeal among startups with a handful of employees rather than self - employed and freelancing professionals.

It's very heavily reliant on direct customer observation rather than market research.

Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: «Most men would rather die than think.

The observation could be explained by acknowledging espousal reciprocity rather than parental authority.

Rather than a mere observation that feminine things are this and masculine things are that, people often leap from the description to the prescription — because you are «feminine,» you must be x, y, and z. And I think when people hear feminists rejecting the prescriptive part of gender divides, they hear that we're rejecting a gender divide altogether.

Rather than allow this experience to float free of the moorings of actual science, as Jurgen Moltmann appears to do, we would prefer to ground it in the dynamic of scientific observation, along the lines indicated in this issue's Notes from Across the Atlantic.

There is something rather than nothing at the root of all we observe and no reason or evidence that our observations are in error.

Most of the observations bearing on this problem come from introspection rather than from controlled experiments.

Rather than ground their discussion in biblical reflection and careful observation of play itself, Christians have most often been content to allow Western culture to shape their understanding of the human at play.

Popper calls his view critical rationalism rather than empiricism because observation - sentences are used to falsify rather than to verify theories.

Rather than working with a parsimonious specification of master trends, social laws, or correlations among variables, the analyst works with a complex set of concepts and empirical observations, piecing them together in ways that reveal underlying processes and interconnections.14

It appears that McGrath has got too sucked into the Popperian insight that human understandings of the world are «theory laden» (p. 61)-- wherein human culture rather than human nature is made not just intrinsic to explanations of observations, but determinative.

I'm still working all this out in my head, but as a woman who has grown to accept her ambitious spirit rather than resist it (perhaps because of my upbringing, perhaps because of Dan's influence and support, perhaps because of that whole Enneagram Type 1 thing), I offer just a few observations that I hope we can discuss further in the comment section:

In my experience and observation, often when an organization, church, or leader gets accused of being abusive, rather than offering a genuine apology, a kind...

In order to realize this preference, we must go beyond Niebuhr's realistic observation that groups and nations relate predominately on a «political rather than ethical» basis.

He was making an observation, but also expressing a wish: a new trajectory of thinking is needed in order to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of our being one family; interaction among the peoples of the world calls us to embark upon this new trajectory, so that integration can signify solidarity rather than marginalization.

The reference to the children reflects a sharp and sympathetic observation of Palestinian life which we have found to be characteristic of Jesus rather than of the early Church.

You know, understanding the world through observation and rational conclusion, rather than through believing everything that an old book of myths tells us.

Nor is this requirement altered by the observation, which Cobb seems to me to make rather more of than he should, that the philosopher, too, always stands in a special tradition which shapes his vision.

Such an observation is typically countered by the claim that rather than excluding and separating from their brothers and sisters, these believers are simply addressing the overt and insufficiently acknowledged sinfulness of the church.

This is neither a sentimental platitude nor a rigid doctrine, but a plain observation regarding the material and social economies that make it possible for us to live in a fully human, rather than bestial, way.

To Hans Jonas the Book of Life is filled with deeds rather than names — an observation that to me expresses a part of the truth.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

Rather than defending the decision, Watkins said it was a «fair - enough observation» and that with hindsight it was not a smart decision.

is that the impression the Jays have a long term trend of under performing bad teams is simply observation bias rather than actually having merit.

It is an observation rather than conclusions.

In biology, rather than: «your lab report must include drawings of your observations and a graph,» how about: what do you need to include in your lab report so that others can understand your process and your results?

Among other things she advocates crying, a 3 hourly feeding schedule if you BF or 4 hourly if you FF, overwrap babies with excessive bedding (which is what The Analytical Armadillo has been questioning recently), has some very misinformed views and ideas which are all based on her observations and opinions, rather than any that can be substantiated by scientific evidence and had some weird notions that babies can poo and vomit on cue to manipulate their parents.

Below is a conversation I had with her about how she reached her conclusions, whether her observations might not be a little out of date, and whether she has set her sights on the right target — defining the «conflict» of one between different visions of motherhood rather than between, say, mothers and inflexible institutions, or mothers and outdated views of the roles of men.

Science in a Waldorf school emphasizes the observation of natural phenomena rather than the formulation of abstract concepts and laws.

Her pediatrician was none other than Dr. Benjamin Spock, whose theories were influenced by Mead's anthropological observations regarding breastfeeding on demand rather than according to a rigid schedule.

«fathers rather than mothers should do most of the important observations of the development of the child.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

Additionally, an individual may be committed for up to 72 hours, rather than 24 hours, for observation.

Lawmakers and citizens are urging restoration rather than demolition of a well - known Door County observation tower dating to the 1930s.

Rather than being «confirmed,» they were «validated» through a series of simpler follow - up observations and complex statistical tests designed to rule out false positives.

Another scientifically interesting observation of the current study is that the interfacial reconstruction is driven and dictated by the orientation of the terminating grain surface, rather than by lattice mis - orientation between the two abutting grains as commonly believed in classical physical metallurgy.

Thus, rather than relying on satellite or eyewitness observations, lake freezing and thawing could be monitored by an autonomous seismometer.

Two years out of graduate school and keen on becoming a professor, Kaltenbacher was passionate about her work on inverse problems, which she describes as «mathematical modeling in a reverse way,» starting with observation rather than first principles.

The suggestion that people would rather give themselves electric shocks than sit idly seems to confirm notably cynical observations (12...