Thus, ontological reduction becomes more or less unhinged from epistemological reduction because there is no need to demonstrate how each and every domain of scientific inquiry is anchored in physical stuff.
By comparison, the specific climate catastrophes that I portray in my book Six Degrees, of killer heatwaves, mega-droughts, spreading deserts and methane-driven runaway warming (the scenarios used in The Age of Stupid, for which I was co-writer), seem almost prosaic by comparison, with their leaden anchors of voluminous scientific referencing.
Anchored in growing scientific, economic and human development evidence, ECD programmes can not only improve young children's capacity to develop and learn, they can break down the inter-generational cycle that prevents children from achieving their full potential from malnutrition, illnesses, impaired learning, and even school dropout.
(b) Instead of framing this in a half century old debate, why not anchor it in contemporary scientific issues and questions?
Because the edges (cause and effect relationships) in the network model are supported by published scientific findings, each network model is anchored to the scientific literature for the biological process being modelled.
This theory deals with the integration of scientific concepts into everyday knowledge and practices ("anchoring") and objects or images to which an abstract process is linked ("objectification").
Jeff Greenfield, also an anchor, interviews David Biello, an associate editor of Scientific American, about the future of the solar industry in the United States.
Instead of hearts or anchors, they get tattoos of their favorite scientific subjects--from DNA molecules and brain cells to schematics for important inventions.
He's part news anchor, part gleeful nerd — a formula that's almost scientific in its ability to deliver hard-core information with chasers of wit.
Unlike the previous Mertonian ideal of scientific norms, moral economies are not abstract and universal but anchored in practices such as accurate measurement and variable over time and place (Daston 1995).
