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• Directory:OmniMediaGroup/PLR/Acupuncture
  ...T="_blank" ^[2]</a> Mechanisms that provide a Western scientific explanation for some of the effects of acupuncture are beginning to emerge. This is enc
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• Charles Sanders Peirce
  ...e went on to obtain the BA and MA from Harvard, and in 1863 the [[Lawrence Scientific School]] awarded him its first M.Sc. in [[chemistry]]. This last degree was Between 1859 and 1891, Charles was intermittently employed in various scientific capacities by the [[United States Coast Survey]], where he enjoyed the prot
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Inquiry Driven Systems : Part 4
  ...ry on in all the varieties of learning and reasoning from everyday life to scientific practice. I would like to design software that people could use to carry t ...rnetic system. Moreover, it falls in line with the general description of scientific inquiry. Finally, it raises the interesting possibility that good formulat
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Inquiry Driven Systems : Part 3
  ...g the word ''inquiry'' in a way that is roughly synonymous with the term ''scientific method''. Use of ''inquiry'' is more convenient, aside from being the shor ...esses a guess about its relevant features, and constitutes a hypothesis in explanation of its experienced characteristics. This incipient order of model or theor
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• John Pecham
  He wrote many scientific and theological works (. A.o. Perspectiva communis, Quodlibeta, Trinitatis ...inorum, a.o. in MS Rome, St.-Isidoro Cod. 1/73. The Canticum amounts to an explanation, a defence and a recommendation of the Franciscan way of life, aiming to gu
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• Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Flavius Vanillus
  ...ar signs of scientific education, a clear grasp of the thinking behind the scientific method and its connection with the Wikipedia principles concerning [[Direct ...and expand the article unhindered, in a way that now takes it far from any scientific point of view.
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• Philosophy of mathematics
  ...argument. It argues for the existence of mathematical entities as the best explanation for experience, thus stripping mathematics of some of its distinctness from ...y, while in Quine's case it comes indirectly, through the coherence of our scientific theory as a whole. Quine suggests that mathematics seems completely certai
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems
  ...ry on in all the varieties of learning and reasoning from everyday life to scientific practice. I would like to design software that people could use to carry t ...bernetic system, moreover, it falls into line with classic descriptions of scientific inquiry. Finally, this suggests that good formulations of such "difference
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• User:Jon Awbrey/EXIT
  ...in the hopes that gathering a few salient clues may lead to a provisional explanation of the WikiPiranha phenomenon. One explanation for this severe anomaly has begun to press itself on my attention, and this
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Information = Comprehension × Extension
  ...how that inference is symbolization and that the puzzle of the validity of scientific inference lies merely in this superfluous comprehension and is therefore en ...And, therefore, there must be some slight preponderance of true over false scientific inferences. Now the falsity in conclusions is eliminated and neutralized b
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/VORPALS
  ...argument. It argues for the existence of mathematical entities as the best explanation for experience. Unlike more traditional versions of realism it does not all ...athematics ''with'' ontology, considering mathematical discovery to be the scientific investigation of Being ''qua'' Being.
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• User:Badmachine/wikipedia-en-2011-11-23
  ...'t template regulars, if I do, I identify one problem, and give additional explanation after that if there are multiple instances, with image problems for example ...akFree> userwarning templates should be in twinkle as a drop down box with explanation so won't easily make a mistake.
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• User:Jon Awbrey/PROSPECT
  of hypotheses that will inform the direction of its resolution or explanation. scientific knowledge in relation to the world is supplied by (Losee, 1980). The
  162 KB (25,941 words) - 13:28, 9 January 2008
• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Inquiry Driven Systems : Part 1
  ...s the general trend of all forms of reasoning that lead to the features of scientific investigation as their ultimate development. ...to the nominal operations that are invoked to substantiate each tentative explanation of a critically important process. Often, but not infallibly, these can be
  241 KB (38,416 words) - 15:14, 15 April 2017
• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Differential Logic : Various Sketches
  ...onal representations of logical concepts, there was George Spencer Brown's explanation of a variable as the contemplated presence or absence of a constant, and th ...ch to take care of some long-unfinished business, and give a more detailed explanation of how I used this syntax to represent a popular exercise from the PDP lite
  369 KB (46,156 words) - 04:20, 27 December 2016
• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Essays/Prospects For Inquiry Driven Systems
  ...ular set of hypotheses that will inform the direction of its resolution or explanation. ...986), (Ginsberg, 1987). A useful historical perspective on the problem of scientific knowledge in relation to the world is supplied by (Losee, 1980). The histo
  226 KB (34,541 words) - 14:20, 20 August 2016
• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Futures Of Logical Graphs
  ...affects logical graphs, but it may be useful to give a shorter and sweeter explanation of how the basic idea typically arises in common logical practice. ...ther, and so the ultimate comparison may not be absolutely immediate. The explanation of this is that, for the sake of computational efficiency, it is useful to
  168 KB (21,027 words) - 12:41, 6 August 2017
• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems 3.0
  ...ns of experience. Thus it must be anticipated that much of what goes into scientific progress, or any sustainable effort toward a goal of knowledge, is necessar But no science can rest entirely on measurement, and many scientific investigations are quite out of reach of that device. To the scientist lon
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• User:Jon Awbrey/IDS
  of scientific investigation as their ultimate development. explanation of a critically important process.
  665 KB (109,541 words) - 02:46, 13 September 2010
• User:Jon Awbrey/Philosophical Notes
  | deny that there is any true explanation of | utterly different from that of the scientific man. The artist
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