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result and explanation
Wage-price policies of industry are the result of a complex of forces -- no single explanation has been found which applies to all cases.
The explanation offered for her conduct is a misguided attempt to save her marriage to a neurotic husband left sterile as a result of an automobile accident.
As a result, most cosmologists consider the Big Bang model of the universe to be the best explanation for the CMBR.
More generally, to insist that all evidence converge precisely with no deviations would be naïve falsificationism, equivalent to considering a single contrary result to falsify a theory when another explanation, such as equipment malfunction or misinterpretation of results, is much more likely.
Theoretically, as seen below, a jamais vu feeling in a sufferer of a delirious disorder or intoxication could result in a delirious explanation of it, such as in the Capgras delusion, in which the patient takes a person known by him or her for a false double or impostor.
A common explanation describes lift as merely the result of the air molecules bouncing off the lower surface of the wing, but since this ignores the airflow around the top of the wing it usually leads to incorrect results.
over several years, and became known as the FitzGerald-Lorentz explanation of the Michelson-Morley null result, known early on through the writings of Lodge, Lorentz, Larmor, and FitzGerald.
An explanation of this is that although the logarithm of the lognormal density function is quadratic in, yielding a " bowed " shape in a log-log plot, if the quadratic term is small relative to the linear term then the result can appear almost linear.
" " Holmesian deduction " appears to consist primarily of drawing inferences based on either straightforward practical principles — which are the result of careful observation, such as Holmes's study of different kinds of cigar ashes — or inference to the best explanation.
One result was the Turtle Bayou Resolutions which were an explanation of the grievances that had led to the disturbances.
That possibility was thought to be too coincidental to provide an acceptable explanation, so from the null result of their experiment it was concluded that the round-trip time for light is the same in all inertial reference frames.
Other explanations include the explanation of evil as the result of free will misused by God's creatures, the view that our suffering is required for personal and spiritual growth, the denial that God is omnipotent, omniscient, or omnibenevolent, and skepticism concerning the ability of humans to understand God's reasons for permitting the existence of evil.
* Uniformity of process across time and space: If a past phenomenon can be understood as the result of a process now acting in time and space, do not invent an extinct or unknown cause as its explanation.
The explanation given by the authors for this result is that " the most important pages have many links to them from numerous hosts, and those links will be found early, regardless of on which host or page the crawl originates.
As a result, the possibility of a general explanation of ethnic violence has grown, and collaboration between comparativist and international relations subfields has resulted in increasingly useful theories of ethnic conflict.
A possible explanation for the rapid rotation of FK Comae stars is that they are the result of the merger of a ( contact ) binary.
This explanation, however, is based on the intuitions of the angry person who experiences a loss in self-monitoring capacity and objective observability as a result of their emotion.
Heinlein acknowledged that such a long life span should not be expected as a result of a mere three generations of selective breeding, but offers no alternative explanation except by having a character declare, " A mutation, of course — which simply says that we don't know ".
states that historical evidence does support the explanation of " strong sexual asymmetry ... as a result of a strong bias favoring matings between European males and aboriginal females, and to the important aboriginal male mortality during the Conquest.
Should any injury result, there is no explanation that could condone the act.
However, a recent result seems to rule out such an explanation by showing revaluation of items following a choice even when people have forgotten their choices.
" It is an explanation of this kind which today, in particular as a result of the studies undertaken by Nallino ( Sull ' origine del nome dei Mu ' taziliti, in RSO, vii ), is generally accepted: i ' tizal would designate a position of neutrality in the face of opposing factions.
" This is contrary to the supply-side explanation of the Laffer curve, in which the increases in tax revenue are held to be the result of an increase in labor supply.
Since we can arbitrarily change the dimensions of the loop and get the same result, the only physical explanation is that the integrands are actually equal, that is, the magnetic field inside the solenoid is radially uniform.

result and consciousness
As long as perception is seen as composed only of isolated sense data, most of the quality and interconnectedness of existence loses its objectivity, becomes an invention of consciousness, and the result is a philosophical scepticism.
The apparent ego is merely the result of identification with the temporary aggregates, the components of the individual human being's body and consciousness at any given moment in time.
Materialism holds that the only thing that exists is matter, that all things are composed of material, and all phenomena ( including consciousness ) are the result of material interactions.
If a fighter loses consciousness (" goes limp ") as a result of legal strikes, or does not immediately defend himself after a knockdown, he is declared knocked out.
In philosophy, the theory of materialism holds that the only thing that exists is matter or energy ; that all things are composed of material and all phenomena ( including consciousness ) are the result of material interactions.
Each stage may have a distinct physiological function and this can result in sleep that exhibits loss of consciousness but does not fulfill its physiological functions ( i. e., one may still feel tired after apparently sufficient sleep ).
Loss of consciousness may occur as the result of traumatic brain injury, brain hypoxia ( e. g., due to a brain infarction or cardiac arrest ), severe poisoning with drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system ( e. g., alcohol and other hypnotic or sedative drugs ), severe fatigue, and other causes.
However, public reaction to the result of the case was strongly negative and since that time the few cases claiming insanity have found that the altered consciousness found in DID is either irrelevant or the diagnosis was not admissible evidence.
A decreased level of consciousness occurs in 0. 5 – 6 % of severe cases, which is attributable either to infection of the brain by the virus or indirectly as a result of impairment of vital organs, for example, the liver.
As a result, the interactions across the world are increasing, and they intensify civilization consciousness and awareness of differences between civilizations and commonalities within civilizations.
In late January 1984 the gradual decline in his health that characterized his tenure suddenly intensified due to growing intoxication in his blood, as a result of which he had periods of failing consciousness.
Unlike other drugs such as stimulants and opioids which induce familiar states of consciousness, psychedelics tend to affect and explore the mind in ways that result in the experience being qualitatively different from those of ordinary consciousness.
They argue that the working class learns of necessity to conduct a collective struggle, for instance in trade unions, arising from its social conditions in the factories and workplaces, and that the collective consciousness it achieves as a result is an essential ingredient of the socialist reconstruction of society.
Child development and consciousness author Joseph Chilton Pearce remarked that revelation typically appears in symbolic form and “ in a single flash of insight .” He used the metaphor of lightning striking and suggests that the revelation is “ a result of a buildup of resonant potential .” Pearce compared it to the earth asking a question and the sky answering it.
Damage to the brain ( such as from a massive stroke, non-penetrating head injury, intoxication or poisoning ) may result in a depressed level of consciousness.
The teacher, possessing consciousness, sees the individual requirements of the disciple and sets tasks that he knows will result in a transformation of consciousness in that individual.
In other Indian religions, the volitional impulses accrued from the present life are transmitted to a consciousness structure popularly known as the soul, which, after an intermediate period ( in Tibetan called the bardo ), forms the basis for a new biological structure that will result in rebirth and a new life.
Confronting the various systems co-ordinated as sensualism, idealism, skepticism, mysticism, with the facts of consciousness, the chasm result was reached " that each system expresses an order of phenomena and ideas, which is in truth very real, but which is not alone in consciousness, and which at the same time holds an almost exclusive place in the system ; whence it follows that each system is not false but incomplete, and that in re-uniting all incomplete systems, we should have a complete philosophy, adequate to the totality of consciousness.
Zapffe believed that existential angst in humanity was the result of an overly evolved intellect, and that people overcome this by " artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

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