It shuts the door on learning through experimentation, making it difficult to discover better ways of financial reporting through practice and comparison of alternatives.
For, as Weinberg argues, while Aristotle prized theories based on mental rumination alone, it was the emergence of the scientific method, rooted in physical experimentation, that has allowed us to discover, explain and harness the laws of nature.
For example, in one computer activity, described below, students were able to discover through experimentation that a population of virtual plants was able to adapt, over many generations, to gradual changes in their environment eventually evolving into very different-looking organisms.
Rather than comprehensive reform, it emphasizes policy experimentation and relatively narrowly targeted initiatives in order to discover local solutions, and it calls for monitoring and evaluation in order to learn which experiments work.
It will be necessary to carry out extensive experimentation, in independent-variable spaces of sufficient dimensionality, in order to discover which of the possible mappings is correct.
We are therefore in the process of creating a culture of experimentation, to explore and discover what works, what is useful, what is surprising, and what may lead to unexpected results.
The goal is for students to discover that scientists come from various cultures and backgrounds, scientific experimentation has evolved to its present state, science is tentative, and people are reluctant to accept ideas different from their own.
It was also open to discover new sources of moral authority and sacred experience, a predisposition that led to increasing experimentation with drugs but also intimate religious engagements with popular cultures associated with music, film, and television, initially.
Walsh begins sending Chloe videos, which lead Chloe to discover that Walsh was working with Donovan Jameson, the head of Nu-Corp, and Dr. Stephen Hamilton on experimentations involving the meteor rocks.
