Sentences with phrase «than his theories justify»

In actual practice, the psychoanalyst does attribute to the «I» of his patient a greater transcendence over these psychic forces than his theories justify, just as the academic psychologist, consciously or unconsciously, attributes to his subjects an inwardness that his science ignores.

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Clearly China has bought into the nascent industry theory: that by generating demand for a sunrise industry, a country or region can come to dominate it, more than justifying the cost to ratepayers and taxpayers.

This is particularly true for advocates of the evolutionary theory, which has frequently been used to justify acts of mass genocide when one race is regarded as being superior and more highly evolved than another.

If just - war theory is in poor repute today it is because it has been pressed into service to justify war rather than to prevent or restrain it; rather than being used to advance the cause of peace or justice, the theory has often provided a quickly accessible patina of moral justifiability to disguise aggression and expansionist policy.

Whatever Mr Cameron's views on tax, you are a little bit harsh on Professor Laffer's theory, I think, which is far simpler and more eloquent than it is normally presented (including by the 1980s true believers, who largely hijacked it as a rhetorical device to justify tax cuts).

Though less widely appreciated than his special theory of relativity, Einstein's general theory has given scientists a vastly wider and more profound perspective than its predecessor, justifying Einstein's judgment that it was «the most valuable theory of [my] life.»

Because, in theory, it'll be easier to justify keeping the tablet on your lap in the living room than your laptop, the tablet could start to play a significant role in how you keep yourself busy in the living room.

Some cynics have long argued that «ocean acidification» is little more than a green urban myth: a fallback position for when the man - made - global - warming theory finally collapses and another excuse is needed to justify the increasingly unjustifiable war on carbon dioxide.

AGW theory gives a strong position to CO2 concentration, more than I think is justified.

Similiarly, if possibility theory admits that evidence can make an event «more likely», then the requirement to be able to rank scenario classes as more or less likely than each other leads to something that looks a lot like probability in the end, and the debates about whether a risk justifies action should depend on how one evaluates the evidence, and one's aversion to risk, rather than the terminology used to quantify risk (or not).

... There was no viable option to test the veracity of the plaintiff's evidence other than through surveillance... photographs obtained through surveillance appear to show the plaintiff using and extending her right arm... Although surveillance in this case occurred late in the day, I am satisfied that the defendants» theory of the case, the limited options available, and the likelihood the case would proceed to trial, justified video surveillance in all the circumstances.