Too often, in past years, the N.B.A. game has succumbed to a dull form of pick-and-roll basketball, featuring players with a matrix of individual skills sufficient to overwhelm defenders, but little observable sense (or concern) at any given moment for where the rest of their teammates are.
The dimensions to risk perception consist of knowledge; the probability of the risk and whether it is observable; sense of dread or fear from the risk; whether effects are immediate or delayed; and whether there are fatal consequences [ 42].
When you make an observable kind of sense, people start to agree with you.
Properties and entities that are observable in the sense of direct, unaided perception did not seem to depend on scientific theories as forces, electrons and nucleotides did.
This force is an observable in the sense that a unit test mass at r will be accelerated towards the central mass by this force with acceleration F. The potential field U becomes more negative as r gets smaller.
This fact raises questions about the nature of quantitative measures of properties of entities in general relativity, and what ought to count as observable, in the sense of reflecting the underlying physical structure of spacetime.
Vaguely speaking, a marker locus might be seen as an, in some sense, observable short chromosomal segment and it is polymorphic if several types of genetic observations are possible, in the underlying population, with respect to this segment.
Two very general forms of reductionism have been held by philosophers in the 20th century: (1) Logical positivists have maintained that expressions referring to existing things or to states of affairs are definable in terms of directly observable objects, or sense-data, and, hence, that any statement of fact is equivalent to some set of empirically verifiable statements.
The possibility to utilize the dependence of an interaction of a chemical species with the MOF framework can thereby lead to significant changes in the luminescence, which provides an excellent observable used for sensing and detection.
How in particular could physics, the science of motion in space and time, be possible if the pure forms of intuition, space and time, were banished from science?[38] The point is that the scientific or epistemic value of, say, astronomy, is not to be found in what is given and observable by the senses, but rather in the mathematical exactness of its equations.
Rather, the two kinds of truth address different domains, the moral and the empirical (what is observable through the senses).
