Like music, his compositions are fundamentally abstract, despite their relationship to observed phenomena, for they transcend those observations rather than expressing them in concrete terms.
The Zoonomia lacked mechanisms based on observable natural forces and relied on general observations rather than the careful measurements and experimentation that characterized Charles' own work.
As Ms. Niederhoffer clearly knows, the fun in such stories comes from quick, withering observations rather than plot mechanics.
Ever modish, I'm going to offer you a downsized column: small, home-made observations rather than a great palatial sweep.
They did not get it that they were seeing Avedon's observations rather than likenesses, art rather than tourism photos.
The plot seems to grow out of his observations rather than being imposed by his will; in reality, the plot came first, as it usually does.
Thus, Pluto's discovery was a remarkable coincidence attributable to careful observations rather than to accurate prediction of the existence of a hypothetical planet.
The repetition of the themes in these pieces isn't the problem so much as the rigidly conceived characters who embody them, and the sense that ideas are driving the observations rather than vice versa.
The following are all by deeply knowledgeable writers with original observations (rather than a pastiche of the conventional wisdom), and, most unusually, there is not book among them with a dragon on the cover.
They further claimed that the theoretical (as opposed to the observational) claims of science are also unverifiable and in fact function as predictive instruments (predictors of observations) rather than as descriptions of an independently existing reality.
A third disagrees: being an only child "has become an excuse for my generation", he says.Ms Xue raises more questions than she answers—her book is a series of observations rather than a rigorous study, a little too reliant on individuals who have travelled far from China and into the author's path.
