Sentence examples for observation term from inspiring English sources

In the control group, the burn area contracted by 1.2 times on day 14 compared to the previous observation term.

The observation term was from March 1996 to April 2011, and the magnitude range of the analyzed earthquakes was from 4.0 to 5.0.

Instead, Feyerabend argued for the idea that the meaning of a term, even an observation term, is determined by its theoretical context, or more precisely, by the theoretical principles that govern its correct use according to our best theories.

Take the terms describing behaviour as the observation terms and psychological terms as the theoretical ones of folk psychology.

It seems to imply that there is no principled semantic distinction between theoretical terms and observation terms.

The meanings of observation terms were determined by their relation to what is given and were thus unrevisable or incorrigible.

One that began to do so soon was the recognition of the problem of the irreducibility of disposition terms to observation terms (more on this presently).

Feyerabend over-extended the contextual theory of meaning to apply not only to theoretical terms but to observation terms too, arguing that there is no special "problem" of theoretical entities, and that the distinction between observation terms and theoretical terms is a purely pragmatic one.

First, the introduction of theoretical terms may be joined with the introduction of another, theoretical domain of interpretation, in addition to the basic domain of interpretation in which observation terms are interpreted.

Cognitive access to theoretical entities is thus explained in terms of our cognitive access to the symbols and rules of the calculus in the context of an antecedent understanding of the observation terms.

Feyerabend argued that the idea, common to positivists, that the interpretation of observation terms doesn't depend upon the status of our theoretical knowledge, has consequences undesirable to positivists.