Sentences with phrase «tentative theories»

The habit of precipitate explanation leads rapidly on to the development of tentative theories.

It's only from that baseline belief — the precipitate explanation — that we can then get into multiple climate science concepts — the tentative theories: — Being unprecedented, changes must therefore be alarming, and since they are occurring since the late 20th C they must have been primarily caused by man, so man must be responsible for some % for alarming climate change i.e attribution man v nature.

These spaces should encourage teens to advance tentative theories and experiment with different perspectives.

Drawing these strands of thought together, there is a tentative theory I hold.

Pondering these findings, Shatz developed a tentative theory about what MHCI was doing beyond the blood - brain barrier.

Briefly summed up, the evolution is this: a premature explanation passes into a tentative theory, then into an adopted theory, and then into a ruling theory.

Not exact matches

Collingwood did not elaborate a metaphysical system of his own, making some tentative endeavors in the manuscripts, «Notes Towards a Metaphysics,» «Method and Metaphysics,» and «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory.»

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

Some theories, including string theory, predict that they should drift, and there are some tentative hints of such changes from astronomical measurements.

By inviting others» voices and ideas into her story, by representing her self, her subjectivity as distinctly «revealed in relationship,» (1) and by self - consciously laying bare her process throughout, describing and depicting her at times tentative and ambivalent methods and allowing the questions, skepticism, and contradictions coming from her interviewees into the final film, Polley envisions her theory of a choral, relational autobiography and its practice.

Zeckhauser acknowledges in the conclusion that it offers «more speculations than conclusions,» and its theory is «often tentative and implicit» in seeking to answer the question, «How can one invest rationally in UU situations?»

«Hypotheses are single tentative guesses — good hunches — assumed for use in devising theory or planning experiment, intended to be given a direct experimental test when possible.»

In order to have a well - defined theory of God, all of these questions have to have at least tentative answers.

The moment one has offered an original explanation for a phenomenon which seems satisfactory, that moment affection for his intellectual child springs into existence; and as the explanation grows into a definite theory, his parental affections cluster about his intellectual offspring, and it grows more and more dear to him, so that, while he holds it seemingly tentative, it is still lovingly tentative, and not impartially tentative.

For a time the theory is likely to be held in a tentative way with a measure of candor.

the part of wisdom is to keep our theories open - ended, our assumptions tentative, our reactions flexible... Like the blind man dealing with the elephant, we must erect hypotheses on the basis of inadequate evidence.

The works of both women (as well as others», e.g. Carol Tavris, e.g. Ira Turkat, supra, note 20b) lack adequate criticism of defense expert and bar misapplication of tentative memory research, as well as of nonsense such as «parental alienation» and «reunification» theories and therapies (after all, being «alienated» arguably also is a form of MHP «victimology» advocacy).