8 sentences with 'observation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word observation and other words derived from it.
• « And over decades of personal observation, I have also seen that the average person makes such mistakes from time to time in life. »
• « It is the result of the observation - by space shuttle astronauts - of an oceanic phenomenon that has never before been seen so clearly: huge marine eddies that, as they rotate and collide with each other, mix deep and shallow water. »
• « The ancient Greeks invented a form of philosophy and learning related to empirical observation and rationality; »
• « They employed a form of what is known as inductive reason, of starting with observation and moving towards explanation. »
• « In other words, virtually all pre-modern people already knew how the world worked: they knew it from myth, from the teachings of ancient authorities and from religion. In a sense, all the answers were already there, and therefore empirical observation was considered redundant. »
• « The term used at the time for "science" was "natural philosophy", a branch of philosophy devoted to the observation and cataloguing of natural phenomena, for the most part without attempting to explain those observations outside of references to ancient authorities and the Bible. »
• « The French scholar François Poulain de la Barre (1647-1725) concluded that empirical observation showed that the custom of male domination in European society was just that: a custom. »
• « I don't need to walk down every street; a minute's observation is enough to catch the dreamy eyes of the children. Then I know that the vacant lot of my childhood, like Shangri-La, exists. And I can find it and walk once more through the fustian weeds, which now in my adulthood are knee-high to me. »