Sentences with phrase «than the observation of»

It is perhaps the reason he said he was not an atheist other than the observation of wonder and the understanding that unknown means unknown.

For this extremity of pessimism to be reached, something more is needed than observation of life and reflection upon death.

(Until very recently, science generally made no attempt to answer questions about anything other than observation of the natural environment.

Indeed, the philosophers have no other proof than the observation of the occurrence of the burning, when there is contact with fire, but observation proves only a simultaneity, not a causation, and, in reality, there is no other cause but God.»

They are statements of opinion rather than observations of fact.

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.

At this point, as far as I am concerned, proper information and counseling to families and children regarding the dangers of FGM would be more useful than the observation of laws.I would propose the operation of free institutions, coordination of campaigns and obligatory seminars at schools that would be sponsored by the government of every state in the world.

Of course, prices may move much faster than your observation of the price and the time it takes to process your order — you're far from being the only participant.

Still, the disease can go unrecognized at home, other than the observation of bad breath.

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.

If you know a better practical method of determining sensitivity than observation of the shape of the temperature vs CO2 curve over more than 50 years, please let me know.

Not exact matches

«Cal / OSHA's regulations define a serious injury or illness as one that requires employee hospitalization for more than 24 hours for other than medical observation, or in which a part of the body is lost or permanent disfigurement occurs.»

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

«That's obviously a very micro level observation but kind of remarkable to have 40 % more people vote in a GOP primary than voted GOP in the last general,» he said.

Based on my own observations from more than two decades in the field of business brokerage and mergers and acquisitions, many small businesses that survived the economic downtown are now seeing renewed strength in their top - line revenues, and solid or growing bottom - lines.

We all have little voices in our heads - some more than others, based on my very unscientific observations of humans over the years.

Based on his observations of Trump, Finkelstein believes Trump is more focused on himself than he is the fulfillment of a vision or the cultivation of a talent network.

«We'd love to proclaim these numbers as definitive evidence of a real downshift in the trend in claims, but it's even riskier than usual to put too much weight on single observations at this time of year,» says Shepherdson.

The mammoth research project involved sifting through more than 10,000 observations about managers and correlating these with measures of team success.

While young / first - steps content marketers can learn many things from their more mature peers, one of the most striking — and encouraging — observations about those in the early phase is that 71 % agree that their organization is focused more on building long - term relationships than on getting quick results from content marketing.

Using computerized controls and remote data entry systems, the plant monitored more than 30,000 observations of its production processes every four hours.

We looked at more than 40 years of data and found that roughly 80 % of historical observations showed business as usual in the bond market.

Using more than 250,000 observations, we show that even simple, easily accessible variables from the digital footprint equal or exceed the information content of credit bureau (FICO) scores.

The second element of the failure framework, the observation that technologies can progress faster than market demand... means that in their efforts to provide better products than their competitors and earn higher prices and margins, suppliers often «overshoot» their market: They give customers more than they need or ultimately are willing to pay for.

«The Impact of Financial Advisors on Individual Investor Portfolio Performance», based on a subset of these observations encompassing more than 193,418 monthly common stock return observations for 5,661 investors, finds that:

Profit margins did achieve higher levels in the past cycle than I would expect on a sustained long - term basis, but that observation is already factored into our analysis of valuation.

As Chart 2 shows, policy rates in Canada have on average been only 0.25 % higher than the US (using quarterly observations) since the introduction of inflation targeting from the Bank of Canada in 1992.

It may be nothing more than a cultural observation, but there is something to be said for the fact that CBC is in its fifth season of the Dragon's Den, a TV show where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their business concepts and products to a panel of Canadian business moguls.

Faith that the sun will rise is more of a resonable expectation than a belief despite evidence — there is a precedent set based on long observation by not only the person making the belief statement, but also by everybody else in the world (except maybe the Inuit).

Less than a hundred years later, Italian Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) using the telescope, made observations that convinced him that the Copernician hypothesis of an earth revolving around the sun was true.

We find that the Romans owed... the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observation of discipline in their camps and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.»

And it is my conviction, it is my observation that those who believe in eternal security move a lot faster down the road of discipleship than those who are constantly afraid of making mistakes.

More than a few pundits have recently bemoaned the absence of breakthroughs or excitement in the observations of the Constitution's bicentennial.

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.

Thanks to modern natural science these wholes can for Whitehead be much more closely investigated than they could for Aristotle with his rudimentary means of observation.

Among these, none is more appropriate for emphasis in a discussion of community mental health than the observation that healing seems to have taken place almost invariably in some corporate context.

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.

And observation within one's own church is more difficult than the study of a distant culture.

The statement «We breed a great variety of dogs,» which rests on direct observation, is much easier to prove than the statement that the earth goes around the sun, which requires sophisticated reasoning.

The aim of imaginative generalization is not to purify observation of interpretation, for if such were the case we would be left with little more than the bland experience of the stone: «If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography» (PR 15/22).

An inductive, empirical approach in a field such as anatomy would certainly demand more than that each new student start from scratch, with only such general observations as that people come with parts such as heads, thoraxes, loins, thighs, hearts, kidneys, spleens and an assortment of tubes.

Ethnographic descriptions and anthropological observations of the 19th century highlighted the fact that Malayarayans were different from other hill tribes of Travancore on many counts.3 The Travancore Census Report (1901) describes Malayarayans as «a class of hill tribes, who are little more civilised than the Mannans, and have fixed abodes in the slopes of high mountain ranges.

Medieval art as well dealt in symbols in an era when artists were more concerned with the world of Christian faith than with the world of scientific observation.

One of the few historical observations on which there is a large consensus is that companionate marriage of the last 150 years — in which the marriage relationship is based on intimate love alone — has created more problems than it has solved, carrying within it the seeds of its own destruction.

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

For a long time now the Christian understanding of man has been obscured by theories of his nature built on other dogmas than that of the sovereignty of God and constructed out of observations of his behavior made from other points of view than those of Christian faith.

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

If these observations are accurate, more unites than divides the churches, at least in respect to the nature and function of authority.

In an empirical observation of human activity and life, a la Hobbes, desire seems to know no end other than death.

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.