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Observation

Definition

noun, plural: observations

(1) The act of attentive watching, perceiving, or noticing

(2) The data measured, collected, perceived or noticed, especially during an experiment


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Word origin: Latin observationem (a watching over)

Synonym(s):

  • (scientific) findings

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Now, I may have not fully understood your example, as to me it still seems that you take the one exit you take based on the stimulus obtained from your environment. . . Determinism is a global thesis; a world is determined if the following three conditions obtain: 1) at all times the world has a de...

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Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:14 am
 
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... function that results in ATP production that may exceed 30%. This results in swelling of organs and other life-threatening problems and so this observation may be the link between mutant mitochondria and the prevalent inflamation observed in the elderly. Aging of the immune system is marked ...

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Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:25 am
 
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... is determined and we don't have free will is vanishingly improbable. And again, as acting in accord with the result is equivalent to making an observation of the result, and as science is irreducibly dependent on observation, the scientist cannot rationally deny free will or espouse determinism. ...

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Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:13 am
 
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Topic: Do We Have The Freedom Of Choice?
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... is determined and we don't have free will is vanishingly improbable. And again, as acting in accord with the result is equivalent to making an observation of the result, and as science is irreducibly dependent on observation, the scientist cannot rationally deny free will or espouse determinism.

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by ughaibu
Tue Apr 02, 2013 3:29 pm
 
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... bovine from Java. It was born to a surrogate mother cow on 1 April. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2003/04/08-01.html - - - - - Hypothesis-observation-theory. The claim that all life that is and ever was shares a common ancestor with a single organism 3.5 billion years is an untestable ...

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by wildfunguy
Tue Feb 19, 2013 3:21 pm
 
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