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n. (plural of regularity English)
Usage examples of "regularities".
The irregularities of wind and ram, just as much as the regularities of rivers, the sea and the earth, the stars, sun and moon, are explained animistically, as reflecting the minds or whims of local or global gods, themselves motivated by similar concerns to those that motivate humans.
Thus what we describe as environmental regularities are not external features that have been internalized, as representationism and adaptationism both assume.
Igneous formations often have strange regularities - like the famous Giants’ Causeway in Ireland-but this stupendous range, despite Lake’s original suspicion of smoking cones, was above all else nonvolcanic in evident structure.
Igneous formations often have strange regularities - like the famous Giants' Causeway in Ireland - but this stupendous range, despite Lake's original suspicion of smoking cones, was above all else nonvolcanic in evident structure.
It is coalescing into the image of basic regularities that repeat and recur.
It is now possible to search out these regularities and obtain a glimpse of the fundamental nature of evolutionof the evolution of the cosmos as a whole, including the living world and the world of human social history.
Environmental regularities are the result of a conjoint history, a congruence that unfolds from a long history of codetermination" (Embodied mind, p.
These regularities constitute what we could call Bittorio's world [worldspace].
Specificity is the property that confers on brains the ability to make sense of their environment, to recognize invariance and to respond in an orderly way to regularities in the external world.
As I look back I can see that there were three stages of my own ignorance, The first, which was by far the most happy, you could call the stage of innocent ignorance when I was possessed with the notion that there were some secrets of human nature, there were some laws and regularities, some cause and effect relationships, and that through study, through experiences, through reading, some day I would share these secrets and be able to apply my knowledge of these regularities of human behaviour to help other people.
The unknown mountains ahead rose dizzily up like a fearsome rampart of giants, their curious regularities showing with startling clearness even without a field glass.
Gradually, however, it must have been noticed that there were certain regularities: the sun always rose in the east and set in the west, whether or not a sacrifice had been made to the sun god.
However, as civilization developed, and particularly in the last 300 years, more and more regularities and laws were discovered.
On the other hand, assertions based merely on conjecture or apparent regularities and coincidences—otherwise known as superstition—are of little use without some means of testing them against actuality.
The problem for Big Bang is that relative to the sizes of these immense structures, the component units that form them are moving too slowly for these regularities to have formed in the time available.