It's a process, not a body of facts or laws.
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Education is not just about transmitting a body of facts, which the internet does pretty well.
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In an ideal world, he says, students would learn a common body of facts about immigration.
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Ultimately, communication, and with it survival as a polity, depends on a shared body of facts and assumptions about the world.
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Even the idea of having a debate with people about a commonly accepted body of facts seemed to be slipping away at the time.
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It increasingly seems that the US is composed of two warring tribes that lack a shared body of facts or any shared sources of authority.
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In 1980, the mathematics department of New York University assigned Lax to design a remedial course in mathematics for freshmen. The course she devised and called "Mathematical Thinking" presented mathematics not as a body of facts but as a set of problems to be analyzed and resolved. "There is a misconception among people and schoolchildren about the nature of mathematics," she said, in a 1979 interview.
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National Academy of Sciences (2008), > Science, Evolution, and Creationism. From the American Association for the Advancement of Science: > A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of > the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly > confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories > are not "guesses" but reliable accounts of the real world. The theory of > biological evolution is more than "just a theory".
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The public and scientists disagreed quite dramatically on 12 out of 13 issues covered in the survey. On the occasion of Pew's publication, writer Joel Achenbach asked McNutt for her input on a National Geographic feature article, "Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?". McNutt neatly gave this definition: > Science is not a body of facts. Science is a method for deciding whether > what we choose to believe has a basis in the laws of nature or not.
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Plaintiff's lawyer Friedrich Karl Kaul during the Essen Dora Trial, October, 1968. Long after the Dachau Dora Trials were complete, violent crimes still extant in the body of facts resulted in new Mittelbau- Dora trials both in West Germany and East Germany. The most important was the Essen Trial, held on 17 November 1967 before the District Court at Essen, West Germany. In these proceedings, former camp guard Erwin Busta, Gestapo official Ernst Sander and chief of security for the V-weapons program Helmut Bischoff were tried.
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From the American Association for the Advancement of Science: > A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of > the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly > confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories > are not "guesses" but reliable accounts of the real world. The theory of > biological evolution is more than "just a theory." It is as factual an > explanation of the universe as the atomic theory of matter or the germ > theory of disease.
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Ambiguity and confusion regarding usage of the terms 'science', 'empirical science', and 'scientific method' have complicated the usage of the term 'human science' with respect to human activities. The term 'science' is derived from the Latin scientia meaning 'knowledge'. 'Science' may be appropriately used to refer to any branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged to show the operation of general laws. However, according to positivists, the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge which comes from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, the application of knowledge or mathematics.
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Charles Darwin «The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication», 1868 г.: > I will therefore give all the facts which I have been able to collect on the > formation of hybrids between distinct species or varieties, without the > intervention of the sexual organs. For if, as I am now convinced, this is > possible, it is a most important fact, which will sooner or later change the > views held by physiologists with respect to sexual reproduction. A > sufficient body of facts will afterwards be adduced, showing that the > segregation or separation of the characters of the two parent-forms by bud- > variation, as in the case of Cytisus adami, is not an unusual though a > striking phenomenon.
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The Unialphabet system of classification for bilingual wordbooks, created by the Spanish lexicographer Delfin Carbonell Basset, blends both languages into one single body of facts rather than employing the traditional two-part method. This way, the user can go straight to the word, not minding whether he or she is in the English or Spanish part, making it easier to check the words or expressions in either language. The parallel lexicographical quality control is assured as the foreign counterpart word or idiom can be easily checked out. This method was first used in A Spanish and English Dictionary of Idioms by Carbonell Basset and then in Dictionary of Proverbs, Sayings, Maxims, Adages, English and Spanish, with a foreword by John Simpson of the University of Oxford.
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These are the facts, which make one understand the working or œconomy of nature .... namely what are the checks & what the periods of life, by which the increase of any given species is limited." He told Jenyns that he had "continued steadily reading & collecting facts on variation of domestic animals & plants & on the question of what are species; I have a grand body of facts & I think I can draw some sound conclusions. The general conclusion at which I have slowly been driven from a directly opposite conviction is that species are mutable & that allied species are co-descendants of common stocks. I know how much I open myself, to reproach, for such a conclusion, but I have at least honestly & deliberately come to it.
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The Los Angeles Times wrote, “The film by British film maker Robert Stone (an Oscar nominee for feature documentary) is an outstanding achievement on all levels. Stone conveys an enormous body of facts, figures, attitudes and effects in the most organically subtle fashion. There’s also a uniquely emotional quality thanks to the participation of two witnesses--Kilon Bauno, the chief of 162 Bikinians who were relocated throughout the Marshall Islands to clear the way for the nuclear invaders, and John Smitherman, a Navy pilot involved in dropping the bombs.” The Washington Post wrote, “Stone's film is an eloquent, if harrowing, examination of the psychic and physical fallout of the testing, both on Bikinians and on unprotected American servicemen who were drenched in radioactive mists while monitoring the blasts.
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In science, the term "theory" refers to "a well- substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment."National Academy of Sciences, 1999AAAS Evolution Resources Theories must also meet further requirements, such as the ability to make falsifiable predictions with consistent accuracy across a broad area of scientific inquiry, and production of strong evidence in favor of the theory from multiple independent sources (consilience). The strength of a scientific theory is related to the diversity of phenomena it can explain, which is measured by its ability to make falsifiable predictions with respect to those phenomena. Theories are improved (or replaced by better theories) as more evidence is gathered, so that accuracy in prediction improves over time; this increased accuracy corresponds to an increase in scientific knowledge.
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