Sentence examples for propensity interpretation from inspiring English sources

The frequency interpretation is strained since the development of CTCs may be a non-repeated phenomenon; and the propensity interpretation is equally strained since, barring just-so stories about the Creator throwing darts at the Cosmic Dart Board, there is no chance mechanism for producing cosmological models.

But it does seem to us that certain gross oversimplifications of the propensity interpretation deserve more serious attention.

Again, this is not a fatal problem for the propensity interpretation and it is perhaps the only way out of the tautology problem.

We most certainly do not propose to return to the interpretation of fitness that the propensity interpretation was designed to replace.

I'll propose some approaches for filling in the blanks in the theory, building on the propensity interpretation of fitness, in the last section of this essay.

However, the "expected fitness" approach, often described as the "propensity approach" or "propensity interpretation" of fitness, goes part way toward resolving the issues I've described.

Brandon and Ramsey (2007) defend the propensity interpretation of fitness, which was developed specifically to resolve the tautology problem: The prime motivation [for introducing the propensity interpretation] was to make room for an explanatory theory of natural selection, which is tantamount to solving the so-called "tautology problem".

The propensity interpretation does indeed save natural selection from tautology because "expected fitness" does not reduce to "survival," because the former is defined as a theoretical expectation and the latter is defined based on empirical observation.