Sentences with phrase «with classical theories»

Other aspects of guppy ecology were consistent with classical theories.

The biblical interpretation stands, above all, under the archetype of the covenant, but it is also consonant with the classical theory of natural law as derived from ancient philosophy and handed down by the church fathers.

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Pairing feminist theory with women's local wisdom, Jones exposes not only the potential pitfalls of classical doctrines, but also how, with some skillful feminist remapping, doctrines prove capacious enough for new generations of women to inhabit in grace - filled ways.

Sullivan worked closely with anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, and with Fromm and Horney as they together challenged classical psychoanalytic theory because of its inadequate instinctual and biological presuppositions.

Modern theories of rhetoric have also been used to place new emphasis on argumentation, since much classical criticism has been overly concerned with arrangement and style.

This view of practice, closer to the classical view, necessarily (if often only implicitly) associates practice with theory or «metaphysics,» even if it does not exactly subordinate one to the other.

In consequence, with such models as their objective, physicists frequently formulate the content of quantum mechanics in the language of classically conceived particles and waves, because of certain analogies between the formal structures of classical and quantum mechanics... Accordingly, although a satisfactory uniformly complete interpretation of quantum mechanics based on a single model can not be given, the theory can be satisfactorily interpreted for each concrete experimental situation to which the theory is applied.2

Adam Smith, the founder of classical liberal economic theory, was also deeply concerned with morality.

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

In this regard, Hartshorne remains fully consistent with the other principles of process philosophy and abandons entirely the «substance» theory of the human soul or self as held by Plato, Augustine, Kant and other classical Western metaphysicians.

In accordance with classical mechanics and according to the special theory of relativity, space (space - time) has an existence independent of matter or field.

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

Classical and neo-classical economic theory, in contrast with Marxist economics, is also based on this atomistic individualism.

In its entirety Whitehead's philosophy offers not only an original ontology, in the classical sense of the word of a theory of being, but includes also — as a critical basis of the former — an abundance of statements having to do with the genesis of ontological concepts.

It might be argued that all scientific inquiry, whether classical or contemporary, presupposes, perhaps in the sense that it makes some assumption with regard to, a theory of space and time structure, and that it obviously may be either an absolutist or a relational position.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

From this point of view, classical economic theory from Adam Smith on, and Marxist theory as well, are paradigmatically modern, and both of the scenarios derived from the accounts summarized above, instead of breaking with the modern, carry it through with a more thoroughgoing consistency than ever before.

He found classical psychoanalytic theory therapeutically inadequate, so he began to experiment with more active and briefer methods.

During the past century, electromagnetic theory united electrostatics, magnetostatics, and network theory with optics in one stroke; special relativity combined classical mechanics with electromagnetic theory; general relativity combined the theory of gravitation with physical geometry and special relativity; and quantum mechanics united much of physics with, at least in principle, all of chemistry.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

Symbiotic Realism, a theory proposed in a previous work, posits that the classical realist perception of competitive state relations, in which states are primarily concerned with relative gains in a self - help system, does not withstand scrutiny in our globalised world.

Classical physics, however, also deals with mass attraction (gravity), and no one has yet been able to bring gravity into a unified theory with the relativized quantum theory.

This energy is enough to generate the Earth's magnetic field, which together with the Moon, resolves the major paradox in the classical theory.

By integrating methods of statistical physics, computational science, and geographic information systems with classical network theory, the researchers have been able to find patterns that could help address problems as diverse as urban traffic congestion and the spread of epidemics.

Parallel to that, they used a simple lattice gas model coupled with equations describing the intermolecular interactions, otherwise referred to as classical density functional theory.

With their data the researchers were able to confirm a key prediction of the classical evolutionary theory of aging that had been proposed more than 50 years ago.

Rennie: I mean there has been this conflict going back early into the time when the history of quantum mechanics, that it didn't sit well with the more classical physics universe that Einstein was working with when he was developing his relativity theories.

The simulations revealed that these bubbles emerge in a way that is well - predicted by classical theories, but that the bubble formation also competes with attempts by the glass to reshuffle its atoms to release the stress applied to a particular location.

According to classical evolutionary theory, animals faced with low chances of survival should do best by following the «live fast and die young» strategy.

Animals from waters with guppy - hungry predators aged more slowly than did fish from pools cut off from predators by waterfalls — an apparent contradiction of the classical theory.

According to Lang, evolutionary biology has a rich history, with many classical theories still in need of experimental tests.

Using both classical test theory and modern measurement models contextualized to tests with given purposes, the pre-conference session attendees will explore the ideal distribution of item difficulty, the importance of item discrimination (and its location), as well as the use of distractor analysis to revise items and gain information about student understanding and ability.

With experience of undertaking modules in a diverse range of subjects, she has acquired exceptional knowledge of contemporary and classical theories which include philosophy, history, cultural studies, film and literature.

This classification theory is consistent with old breed descriptions, which are somewhat contrary to the more classical sighthound / scenthound types, like the one offered in an advertisement run by the Rhodesian Parent Club in a show catalogue in 1926,»... Rhodesian Ridgeback (lion dogs) are unsurpassed for hunting and veld work.

However, James Lloyd, PhD, DVM, dean of the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, emphasized that because veterinary medical education is not a commodity, but a differentiated product with a limited number of providers, classical economic theories are unlikely to hold up.

Freudian psychoanalytic theory was a crucial component of the Surrealist sensibility, and it also enjoyed a huge following among New York intellectuals; for Gottlieb, an additional appeal was that Freudian theory was saturated with allusions to classical mythology - the most famous instance, of course, being Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex.

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Kathleen Kim is an experimental musician and composer with background in improvisation, avant jazz and classical theories.

In the school year 2004/05 she enrolled in postgraduate studies of art in the New Age and in September 2008 she finished her doctorate with a thesis entitled The Theory of Art and Art History in the Second Half of the 20th Century: Classical Tradition and New Art Historiography (mentor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tine Germ and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lev Kreft).

Are you entering at the classical level with an academic background in music theory, trained to play certain instruments, able to interpret the whole canon of classical European music, so - called.

Still, much of this literature has relied heavily on classical extreme value theory (EVT) or on studying frequency size distributions with a heavy - tailed character.

It became a temporal chaos theory problem which can be studied with the «classical» tools.

If one assumes that there is no net heat exchange between the column and its surroundings — implying that the vertical integral of the absolute temperature remains constant — an isothermal profile is obtained in accordance with classical thermodynamics and the kinetic theory of gases.

Non-linear and non-ergodic dynamic systems are not mathematically tractible in classical science, so the challenge is for scientists to become more conversant with QM and chaos theory so as to more realistically model observed phenomena and to test various hypotheses as they are developed.

In these short sections 8.2.3 and 8.3.2, (half a page each) are simply given equations of the classical nucleation theory (CNT), with suggested possible modification by using Bose - Einstein (B - E) statistics instead of the traditionally used Boltzmann statistics.

So if you see a book celebrating seven competing theories about a given (mundane, macro-scale, mostly classical) topic with roughly equal weight, check if it was written after about 1870.

This is a very important distinction, and one some proponents of AGW try to obscure, as to the extent they can confuse the status of their theories with classical greenhouse gas theory, they can divert attention away from the really critical questions about feedback, upon which AGW is based.

The classical Rayleigh - Jeans Law was developed in line with classical electromagnetic theory.

22 In doing so, they combine insights from both classical and contemporary rhetoricians with lessons from contemporary persuasion science, emphasizing cognitive and social psychology.23 Lucy Jewell has looked at classical rhetorical categories through the cognitive science lenses of categorization theory and information processing.

Employers generally prefer candidates with a master's degree in music theory, music composition, or conducting for positions as a conductor or classical composer.