Finally, foundational quality at age 2 accounted for significant variation in language at age 3, over and above sensitive parenting.
He was convinced that academic physics had a bias against pursuing foundational questions at a young age, both because of the need to publish in order to get tenure and because such questions were seen as pretentious.
From an early age, he had foundational experiences with engineering, like working for a local inventor who "had invented a machine that watered automatically trays of alfalfa sprouts".
(This is to raise once again the worry expressed by Boolos (1997: 248 9).)[41] It is an age-old tradition in foundational investigations to provide a foundation that is not only obviously consistent, but obviously true, and from which all the results in the branch es) of mathematics being founded will follow logically.
The philosophy of language soon achieved a foundational position, leading to a "golden age" of logical analysis in the first three decades of the 20th century.
But he also viewed normative ethics as having long been an embarrassment owing to its practitioners' stubborn, "age old quest" for foundational, exceptionless moral principles that could be known with certainty (1944, 336; 197 106a, 97 106).
In an increasingly aging society, age has become a foundational dimension of social grouping broadly targeted by advertising and governmental policies.
By Andrea K. Scott April 28, 2017 The work of Vito Acconci, who died on Thursday, at the age of seventy-seven, was foundational to the histories of performance and video art.
And with so many foundational rock and pop stars reaching old age, we can only expect these tributes to keep coming.
But as landscapes age the habitable soil layer becomes thinner and the foundational layer hardens to the point where, when it rains, the topsoil becomes saturated.
