"This is the beginning of a revolution," said Michael Merzenich, the co-founder and chief scientist of Posit Science; the president of Brain Plasticity; and a celebrated University of California, San Francisco, neuroscientist who pioneered the idea of neuroplasticity.
"No health professional would suggest that any person with hypertension forego the protection offered by prescribed blood pressure medication," said Dr. Henry Mahncke, the chief executive of Posit Science, in a statement.
Policy 10] posit the idea of "reconciling supply and demand of science" as a conceptual tool for assessment of science programs.
Finally, theoretical reductionism is the view in the philosophy of science that the entities and laws posited in older scientific theories can be logically derived from newer scientific theories, which are therefore in some sense more basic.
Radcliffe-Brown's successor in Oxford, Edward Evans-Pritchard, broke with his former teacher's positing of a "natural science of society," preferring instead a more humanistic vision of social anthropology.
Perhaps the paradox is only seeming, for there is an intimate connection between the Marburg School's notion of hypothesis as the active posit of mind, on the one hand, and its notion of science as essentially historical, on the other.
In his Doctrine of Science (1794/95) and in the First and Second Introduction into the Doctrine of Science (1797) he famously set out to demonstrate that the primordial act of self-positing lies at the basis of all reality.
To fully comprehend evolution, it is posited that individuals also need to understand the roles that the nature of science and situations of chance play in the process.
Dossey posits that one reason "many young people see themselves as foreigners in the world of science" is the "separateness, distance, and aloofness required to do science".
