gappiness

One way to extend the notion of gappiness (and gaplessness) to informal proofs is via the notion of a basic mathematical inference, in other words an inference that is “accepted by the mathematical community as usable in proof without any further need of argument” (Fallis 2003, 49).

Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics Baker, Alan 2009

You’ve also kept the gappiness which is a (good) quality in your recordings.

Seven Seven Eighty Two (finished) « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009

The gappiness of our knowledge in the case of social phenomena means, of course, that both reduction1 and reduction2 are matters of principle, and not matters to be pursued in ordinary research is the social sciences.

John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007

It was only later that methodologists came to recognize that the way to deal with the complexity of social phenomena and therefore the inevitable gappiness of the laws that we can discover is through the use of statistical methods.

John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007

Nonetheless, it perhaps goes without saying that neither should be seen as a bar to on-going scientific investigations of social phenomena: they mark the gappiness of our knowledge of laws in these areas and should therefore imply the need for further research, not its cessation.

John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007

Here you can see the shapes of the firs, cedars and hemlocks and the "gappiness" of the spaces that separate them, a term coined here at the Wind River facility.

The Seattle Times 2011

Such transitional forms are rare, to be sure, and for two good sets of reasons geological (gappiness of the fossil record and biological (the episodic nature of evolutionary change...

Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin 2009

-- just make sure the jeans fit so there's weird jean lumpiness or gappiness going on under the top of the tunic.

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