Sentences with phrase «sense of the data about»

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When CR asked NHTSA about the status of the Sorento investigation, the agency said that it «continues to analyze test data and other information to determine if this issue is linked to a defect,» but gave no sense of when the investigation will be completed.

In a broader sense, Cook says that Jobs taught him the value of intellectual honesty — that, no matter how much you care about something, you have to be willing to take new data and apply it to the situation.

All of these rates rose going into the December FOMC meeting, which makes quite a bit of sense, given that most market participants expected the FOMC to tighten policy at that meeting.35 We also gather information about rates on term unsecured borrowing in our FR 2420 collection, and about term secured transactions from the clearing banks, and these data tell a similar story.

Applicants get a sense of the culture before they arrive: A job posting for a director of financial planning and analysis includes a bit about using performance data to spur growth while wearing jeans and eating tacos.

This sense emerges from data, admittedly controversial, about the kind of people who are now coming — and not coming — to seminary.

If God can not introduce data about the world not already available to actual entities, then there would seem to be only two sorts of things he could introduce: a sense of the possibilities relevant to the factual state of affairs known by each actual occasion, plus a feeling of the valuation he would prefer to have attached to each of the possibilities.

I believe that Hardin's reasoning needs to be reinforced with extensive, empirical data — that is, information about resources, numbers of consumers and the costs of sharing in a physical, economic and moral sense.

Instead of investing theological significance in a theory about how the mind intuits objects of sense data, or about the reality of the world external to consciousness, or about the extent to which the mind is creative in producing experience, Green focuses on the role of imagination, a term which refers in ordinary conversation to fantasy and illusion, but which also refers to discovery, illumination and reality.

Some philosophers cling to «qualia», the latest make of sense - data, but the current orthodoxy, thank goodness, is realism about the material world.

Describing visual experience as the seeing of sense - data suggests that beliefs about the external world must be reached by a process of inference.

One obvious puzzle about presentational immediacy has to do with the ambiguous status of the sense - data.

One reason is that the picture of sense - datum awareness as an independent and isolated experience dominated thinking about perception at the time.

This is why those who have recently revived the notion of visual experience, such as John Searle and Christopher Peacocke, have broken away from the traditional story about the awareness of visual sense - data, in favor of the view that perceptual experience has propositional content (Searle) or representational content (Peacocke).2

When we begin with these sorts of entities and generalize about them we are likely to end up with a metaphysics of substance, or, if we dissolve the substance as Hume did so brilliantly, we end up with nothing but our own sense data.

Doing a long series of arithmetical calculations or working all day entering data at a computer terminal may result in almost total «an - aesthesia,» while proving a new mathematical theorem or writing a complex computer program may bring about intense involvement and the enjoyment of vivid immediate experience.8 «Aesthetic» experience in the more usual sense of tile term can also y ~ ry fi - om trivial to highly intense, even when it relates to a single object; one is reminded of the cliche situation in which one member of a couple listens in rapture to a concert while the other writhes in boredom.

But at least two senses of the word can easily be isolated: sometimes, «information» means simply «data,» objective facts given «out there,» things, processes, brute events; at other times, however, it means the cognitive contents of subjective knowledge «in here» about things, processes, events, and so on.

Of course the other standard way of dealing with this, which Mill put forward unsatisfactorily about 1850, was taking the sense - data as ultimate and constructing other things in terms of them — this, the doctrine usually known as phenomenalism, Whitehead didn't accepOf course the other standard way of dealing with this, which Mill put forward unsatisfactorily about 1850, was taking the sense - data as ultimate and constructing other things in terms of them — this, the doctrine usually known as phenomenalism, Whitehead didn't accepof dealing with this, which Mill put forward unsatisfactorily about 1850, was taking the sense - data as ultimate and constructing other things in terms of them — this, the doctrine usually known as phenomenalism, Whitehead didn't accepof them — this, the doctrine usually known as phenomenalism, Whitehead didn't accept.

RS: What I have got out of it, put very simply, is that Whitehead's criticism of the existing scientific view is not that it is pragmatic, or empirical, or based on sense - data, but that it is based on a kind of theory about the nature of the world, and that this has imparted a view of time and space and how the mind works.

Structural facts (e.g., about genetics or cosmology) do not disclose their own meaning, and no amount of scientific combination of the data in one area of existence will directly yield a vision of the whole by means of which we can begin to make sense out of all existence.

Consistent with recommendations in the Next Generation Science Standards, the new THSB unit is designed to help students understand and use scientific practices of reading scientific texts, analyzing and interpreting data, building and using models, and constructing explanations along with a coherent set of core ideas about chemical reactions to make sense of interesting physical and life science phenomena.

Scientists now have much more information about faults both major and minor; just as significant, they have developed a much keener sense of how to proceed when data are lacking.

Let us also assign a number of one bit per second to the data that flow into our senses as we go about our day and assume that we are awake for 12 hours a day.

«It took full genome sequences and a lot of good sense about how to cull the data, and I think that their conclusions are really robust.»

The study, which will be published the week of Feb. 9 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is about how the brain makes sense of data from the fingers.

Standing in a payphone in the village of San Pedro, Chile, about 100 km from the base of Volcano Lascar, volcano researcher Tamsin Mather and colleagues are trying desperately to get through to the manufacturer of their remote sensing device in the U.S. Equipment failure is the bane of any scientist's life, but when it happens in remote terrain, a hitch like this can toll the death knell for further data collection on a precious field trip.

Although many people live long lives with only minor age - related declines in the ability to smell, about 24 percent of Americans 55 years or older have a measurable problem with their sense of smell, according to data from the National Institute on Aging.

Position Description: The University of Vigo offers a Research Position in Vigo (Spain) to work with the Laboratory of Remote Sensing and GIS on the H2020 research project CoastObs in validation of Sentinel 3 data in order to provide information about the relationship between environmental conditions in HABs blooms and develop of local CASE 2 chl - a models.

Deep Earth Imaging is about producing enabling technologies for the industry by better integrating and making sense of geoscientific data.

About Blog Infographics are great visual tools to make sense of loads of data.

Similarly, taxpayers desire information about the performance of their schools, and neither parents nor the taxpaying public should have to manually sort through data on each individual school (clicking through websites and eye - balling each individual data point) in order to get a sense of their performance.

The purpose of the meeting wasn't to tell teachers what the data meant, but to allow them to express curiosity about why the data looked as they did and develop a sense of urgency to find out the answer.

Through an initial pre-survey, we are gathering baseline data about our Teacher Scholars» sense of collective efficacy.

But I try not to complain about the data I don't have, and just try to make sense of the data we do have.

Thinking about this data should create a sense of alarm about this group of students and others experiencing high rates of suspension.

Table 2.3.1 summarizes evidence about the number of respondents who identified each of the original district conditions, along with two more suggested by our data (number 4 and number 9) as having a bearing on their own sense of professional efficacy.

rim is following a smart strategy of concentrating on emerging market where people are not crazy about apps and one data plan for two devices makes sense.

In that sense, what Data Guy is saying about «outgrowing the ««counterculture» phase» of independent authors publishing themselves is logical.

Ubisoft have spoken before about reaching their data limit in terms of maps, so the decision to rework a map in Season 3 rather than add one makes a great deal of sense.

There is something of Jacqueline Humphries» meteorological turbulence and lean viscosity, and like Humphries, she remains wary of the esoteric baggage attached to abstract expressionism but open to the possibility that painting can shoulder a newer metaphorical weight that neither confirms nor denies the place of data in meaningMy sense is that these works offer a less encumbered romanticism, something I was reminded of when talking with Erin in her London studio about her works and those of Günter Umberg.

There is nothing «wrong» with the models; they are always growing and improving, but are not in any sense broken, nor are they the «doing» of science in the sense so many deniers try to falsely claim, but the result of having done science and using that data to make educated guesses about the future.

Just in case you needed more reasons to be concerned about the stability of the Middle East, new research using data from NASA's gravity - sensing Grace satellites shows a substantial decline in the volume of groundwater reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins.

I'm glad we agree about the validity of the UAH data — it makes sense to match the proxies to the instrumental data rather than the other way round.

Even if one were to accept the agency's adjusted and manipulated «warmest on record» Goddard Institute of Space Studies incomplete surface temperature data at face value, NASA's claims about 2014 still make little sense.

Researchers at CIRES» National Snow and Ice Data Center [About NSIDC] investigate the dynamics of Antarctic ice shelves, new techniques for the remote sensing of snow and freeze / thaw cycle of soils, the role of snow in hydrologic modeling, linkages between changes in sea ice extent and weather patterns, large - scale shifts in polar climate, river and lake ice, and the distribution and characteristics of seasonally and permanently frozen ground.

That's because we have a great deal of historical data, for instance, to inform our sense of the likely distribution of potential outcomes in the finance sector and decades of baseball history to inform our judgement about team prospects.

If you want to draw conclusions about the effects of the bias adjustments («Removal of the supposed biases has destroyed the homogeneity of the data «-RRB- it makes sense to isolate the differences that are due purely to the bias adjustments from those due to other factors.

Furthermore, as shown in Table 1 of Koutsoyiannis and Montanari (2007), 150 years of climatic data (the CRU time series) are equivalent to about 2 data points in the classical statistical sense, if the LTP hypothesis is true.

We were wondering at this point: fluffy creatures don't live in abstract climates such as «the south» of England, so what sense does it make to use data about the whole of England, or large parts of it?

Thank you for the clarification of your concerns about the unisys data, in light of your more recent commment, your original post makes sense to me now.

Asked by CNSNews about the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Easterbrook said they «ignored all the data I gave them... every time I say something about the projection of climate into the future based on real data, they come out with some [computer] modeled data that says this is just a temporary pause... I am absolutely dumfounded by the totally absurd and stupid things said every day by people who are purportedly scientists that make no sense whatsoever....