Sentences with phrase «use of reason in»

Proper skepticism promotes scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims.

Another commenter has asked why I insist on the use of reason in science and then admit that I believe in a Creator.

By this Charter, the Governing Council is directed to obtain and to deploy whatever resources may be necessary for the energetic furtherance of the ambitions and activities of the Foundation, which shall conduct research, publish papers, educate students and the public and take every measure that may be necessary to restore the primacy and use of reason in science and public policy worldwide, especially insofar as they may bear upon the rights of the people fairly and fully to be informed, openly and freely to debate, and secretly by ballot to decide who shall govern them, what laws they shall live by and what imposts they shall endure.»

Monckton's mission «to restore the primacy and use of reason in science and public policy worldwide» rather explicitly states that reason is not used in science.

Past authority in the natural sciences gave way to present use of reason in interpreting the data.

Now in both The Function of Reason and Process and Reality, Whitehead makes several interesting remarks about the use of reason in evolutionary survival.

In addition, I think our promotion of the use of reason in religion has also contributed to our being at the forefront of equality movements, and outspoken proponents of acceptance.

Not exact matches

«That is an important reason why the use of the potion is not found in other countries.

«The events of the past few months are a strong reminder that the Internet can be used for the worst reasons imaginable,» Microsoft said in its post.

One reason we used individual - level data in our peer - reviewed studies was to avoid the problem of the ecologic fallacy.

We've always looked at professional sports, not because we want to model exactly what other sports do, but even when you're attempting to innovate, sometimes there are things that already exist in the world that work really well and work for a reason, and we shouldn't be afraid to use some of that.

There will always be reasons for using paper, but considering the digital nature of today's business processes, these reasons are few and far in between.

VR is still in its early stages, but as we see it advance, we'll see more businesses jump aboard Considering VR can also provide real - time data collection and an estimated 43 million people were actively using the technology in some way as of June 2016, there's no reason not to attempt to embrace it.

The emergence of low - cost natural gas in the U.S., largely uncovered through fracking techniques, is one of the major reasons that the country has been able to lower its carbon emissions and has started to ween itself off of coal use.

Jacqueline Woolley, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, conducted research that discovered believing in Santa «exercises children's deductive reasoning abilities and their use of evidence.»

Cycorp charged itself with figuring out the tens of millions of pieces of data we rely on as humans — the knowledge that helps us understand the world — and to represent them in a formal way that machines can use to reason.

The reason to push fibre out to households rather than to nodes, then, isn't just to make those gigabit speeds possible, it's also to create fatter pipes so people aren't constrained in how much they can use the Internet, which they will be if copper wires are part of the plan (Update: one network expert tells me that FTTN doesn't necessitate data caps, although that hasn't stopped providers of it from enforcing them, especially here in Canada)..

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If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

To help them in their discussions, I have outlined four reasons why they should consider using part of that corporate tax reduction to increase or start up a 401 (k) plan employer match.

Yet, in the near future, there's no reason you couldn't skip the phone altogether and use earbuds as your primary form of communication throughout the day, using a laptop for real work or speaking to voicebots at home and in the office.

In particular, 360 - degree video has emerged as a compelling reason to use VR headsets, says Max Cohen, head of mobile at Oculus.

For example, part of the reason AT&T merged with DirecTV in 2015 was to ensure it had enough spectrum to fulfill its customers» ever - growing use of content.

In this video with Entrepreneur Network partner Business Rockstars, attorney Jessica Olmon gives one simple reason why you should avoid using online contracts: The framework between two similar deals might look the same, but different companies and people are willing to assume different levels of risk.

The reason there's no generic Viagra yet is because Pfizer, the company that makes it, holds two patents for the drug: the first for Viagra's composition — which expired in 2012 — and the second for what's called a «method of treatment,» meaning how the drug is used.

Negative opinions and statistics on the use of social media in workplaces are also portrayed as good enough reasons to ban its usage altogether.

From our definition there flows an important corollary: The riskiness of an investment is not measured by beta (a Wall Street term encompassing volatility and often used in measuring risk) but rather by the probability — the reasoned probability — of that investment causing its owner a loss of purchasing power over his contemplated holding period.

The reason for this is that many countries in Asia used the prior period of falling crude prices to end, or dramatically scale back, their fuel subsidies.

In addition to the training and awareness of relevant legal, tax and accounting considerations, a good reason to use a broker is to protect your anonymity and confidentiality.

Part of the reason for the lack of filings — especially for a year that saw investor interest in cryptocurrencies surge — is that every single trade and purchase using cryptocurrencies is considered a taxable event by the IRS.

That's part of the reason it's lagged behind HTC, LG, Motorola, Huawei, OnePlus, and others in actually using USB - C on a phone — its shifts carry more weight.

According to the same RIS study mentioned above, they use their smartphones for multiple reasons when it comes to shopping, including comparing prices while in - store, reading product reviews, and purchasing from the website instead of the brick - and - mortar store.

While the iPhone X is controversial for a number of reasons — Face ID in place of Touch ID, the lack of a home button, the ability to incorporate «animojis,» where emojis use facial recognition instead of the traditional emojis we've grown to love — what really got people talking was the $ 999 price tag for the bare - bones model (a maxed out, 256 GB model will run you a cool $ 1,149).

One reason the Federal Reserve Chair has used to justify keeping interest rates barely above zero is the fact that the labor force participation rate — or the share of Americans over 16 who are in the labor force — has risen over the past year.

«One of the things I never travel without is a ball of string or paracord, the reason being that it can be used in multiple ways,» he said.

Meyers found the reason for Flynn's resignation «ironic,» because he famously berated Hillary Clinton at the Republican National Convention in July of last year for using a private email server while serving as secretary of state.

«The reason you won't see a compromise anytime soon is because Congress actually acting in the wake of Orlando would be a tacit admission on the other side that guns had something to do with what happened in Orlando as opposed to ISIS,» he said, using an acronym for Islamic State.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

According to a number of copyright experts, Deadspin's distribution of GIFs of specific NFL plays would have a strong claim to being fair use for this reason, despite the fact that the NFL has a financial interest in the content.

And Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president for industry platforms, told me about how blockchain technology is being used by Walmart and others in the food industry to keep track of the source of food for safety reasons, and by Maersk in the shipping industry to greatly reduce paperwork and port time.

When you create a culture of accountability, employees have less reason to use language that indicates blame or resentment, and results in a toxic workplace.

(There's a reason 77 percent of Fortune 500 companies use Slack to stay in touch.)

«People need to be involved early on and well aware of what's happening,» Hayes notes, adding that the number one reason employees don't use a new system is that they weren't involved in choosing it.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. may have been able to infer when you bought a gift from their catalog for a friend who lived in another town, but Amazon has more reason (and more ability) to use that information to build a profile of your friend's interests.

Ben Miller, co-founder of Washington, D.C. - based Fundrise, tells CNBC's Diana Olick that the new rules are one reason behind the shift in the focus of their business from real estate development to a platform whose main purpose is to help others use crowdfunding for real estate.

So what about that ominous MarketingSherpa stat we mentioned in the very beginning of this article, which states that the number one reason businesses don't use landing pages is because their marketing department doesn't know how to set them up or they are too overloaded...?

Since 2002, we have been using our disciplined, rules - based system for timing the markets, which is one of the reasons we have managed to produce consistent trading profits with the detailed ETF and stock swing trader picks provided in our end - of - day stock newsletter.

That's the primary reason why so many salespeople stop using their company's CRM in favor of more familiar — yet less effective — methods for managing their sales process.

The reason efficiency is declining is due to decline in oil reservoir quality the world over as the best reserves of this finite resource were produced first and more recent production is more energy - intensive using enhanced oil recovery techniques.

While some companies attempt to address the impact of macroeconomic factors by using relative goals in their long - term incentive plans, the CNGC has determined that relative goals are not the right approach for Walmart for the reasons described on page 50 above.