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An example of personification<\/a> in scientific writing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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"…any observation<\/a> necessitates an interference with the course of the phenomena, which is of such a nature that it deprives us of the foundation underlying the causal mode of description. The limit, which nature herself <\/strong>has thus imposed upon us, of the possibility of speaking about phenomena as existing objectively finds its expression, as far as we can judge, just in the formulation of quantum mechanics."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Bohr, Neils<\/a> (1934) Atomic theory and the description of nature<\/em><\/strong>. Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read about personification in science texts<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An example of personification<\/a> in scientific writing: "…any observation<\/a> necessitates an interference with the course of the phenomena, which is of such a nature that it deprives us of the foundation underlying the causal mode of description. The limit, which nature herself has thus imposed upon us, of the possibility of speaking about phenomena as … Continue reading \"nature herself has imposed a limit on causal descriptions of phenomena\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[1234],"glossary-tags":[1379],"class_list":["post-43704","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","glossary-categories-personification","glossary-tags-quantum-mechanics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science-education-research.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/43704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science-education-research.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science-education-research.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science-education-research.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/science-education-research.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/43704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43705,"href":"https:\/\/science-education-research.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/43704\/revisions\/43705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science-education-research.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science-education-research.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=43704"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science-education-research.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=43704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}