We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>