Charlotte Brontë, like many other writers, relies on a convention that contradicts experience.
While obviously contradicting common experience, the fourth collision rule does nicely demonstrate the scalar nature of speed, as well as the primary importance of quantity of motion, in Cartesian dynamics.
Striking examples of perceptual learning are observed when one receives sensory data that contradict earlier experiences.
Messaging that unilaterally stressed the health risk posed by wild meat contradicted the experiences of target publics, who consume wild meat without incident.
The Persistence of False Beliefs from Brand Loyalty to Religion The impact of false gossip is just one example of the human willingness to believe what others in the community are saying, regardless of its relationship to the truth, from religious belief systems that contradict everyday experiences to confidence in fashionable brand names that is not backed up by the quality of the product.
Family and friends without breast cancer might have felt unwilling to contradict the experiences of women with breast cancer or found their own views similar to theirs.
But that belief is contradicted by experience.
For example, the statement that "almost without exception Taliban members do not receive salaries or other financial incentives for their work", directly contradicts the experience of Afghan and ISAF officials working with the (admittedly not hugely successful) reintegration programme.
This formula obviously contradicts empirical experience.
This seems false to Burley, since it is openly contradicted by experience: e.g., a person can know that the animal standing in front of him is a horse, and what a horse is, without knowing all the other universal forms that are predicated of it (fol. 9vb).
