Sentence examples for a descriptive science of from inspiring English sources

Jespersen's essay was written before interest in linguistics burgeoned; after World War II numerous attempts were made to formulate a descriptive science of metrics.

Husserl's efforts in the first decades of the twentieth century had been directed toward establishing a descriptive science of consciousness, by which he understood not the object of the natural science of psychology but the "transcendental" field of intentionality, i.e., that whereby our experience is meaningful, an experience of something as something.

Stratigraphy has been a descriptive science for most of its history.

Phenomenology, as a descriptive science opening up the material a priori field of meanings, is contrasted with the neo-Kantian explanatory science of formal a priori constructions of meanings.

Biology is no longer a descriptive science.

Medicine is not a predictive science; it is, at best, post-dictive based on biology, which is a descriptive science.

It is shown how catalysis science changes from a descriptive science, focusing on structure-performance relations to a predictive science, with a basis in molecular mechanistic understanding.

Geology was called a descriptive science, and with its pitted outwash plains and drowned rivers, its hanging tributaries and starved coastlines, it was nothing if not descriptive.

These are: realism, namely the belief that mathematics is a descriptive science in the way that the empirical sciences are.

Most biology, says McCarthy, is still predominantly a qualitative, descriptive science.

Much of the biology to which you may have been exposed until now has been a highly descriptive science.