Sentence examples for scientific construct from inspiring English sources
Hence, ethnicity is based on society's understanding of people during a given time period, and not on an objective scientific construct that can be supported by genetics.
Before we engage in "gene manipulation and prophecy" whether in humans, animals or plants, we need to take into consideration the more nuanced and complex view of the scientific construct we call the "gene" to avoid the dangers of naïve genetic reductionism.
Findings showed that very few people thought of the Tree of Life as a cladogram, a scientific construct.
Having served an important heuristic function as a powerful rhetorical idiom, the self lacks firm epistemological standing and thus functions as a fragile scientific construct.
This represents a substantial advance over front-end findings, doubling the percent of people who understood the Tree as a scientific construct.
Attempts to redefine innateness in a way that stresses just one of its many aspects and thus makes it a useful scientific construct have been and will continue to be stymied by the fact that the broad concept of innateness is part of our evolved psychological equipment.
The result is to dismiss it as some sort of pseudo-scientific construct sponsored by pharmacological corporations.
It is the motif of questioning back to the last source of all achievements of knowledge, of reflection in which the knower reflects on himself and his knowing life, in which all the scientific constructs which have validity for him, occur teleologically, and as permanent acquisitions are kept and become freely available to him.
Part of being literate is to both understand and accept scientific constructs".
They judge eight of these to be both genuinely independent definitions and potentially valuable scientific constructs (Mameli and Bateson 2006, p. 177 8).
Social scientific constructs, ideal types in Weber's sense, aimed at capturing the subjective meaning of the actor, that is, according to Weber's intentions, the meaning of the actor as opposed to the social scientist and not some introspective inner process.
