Sentence examples for Theoretical claim from inspiring English sources

By the time he published this observation in 1543, he had made it the basis of a theoretical claim: that it confirmed exactly the size of the apparent lunar diameter.

It may be a weakness that the plot twists not at the middle but at the beginning; but the idea that a benevolent king would rule his kingdom incognito comes straight from the taproot of Nabokov's most insistent theoretical claim, that all fiction is fantasy.

Observation counts against a theoretical claim if the conjunction entails a counter-instance.

FPGA implementation of the proposed structure is also done to supplement the theoretical claim for low hardware complexity and power.

Emphasis is put on the experimental verification of the theoretical claim that the potentials of the gravitational field are the metric coefficients of a 4-dimensional spacetime geometry.

Here, as with HD, an observation argues for or against a theoretical claim only on the assumption that the auxiliary hypotheses are true (Glymour 1980, 110 175).

And with that, the debate moved beyond the Parents Music Resource Center, beyond vague, theoretical claims about how music can contribute to a climate of immorality.

Answering such questions about the effects of public policies does not require sweeping theoretical claims, just careful attention to the data.

Even falsifiability, the benchmark for positivist science, rules out many of the legitimate theoretical claims of cutting-edge physics, and rules in many wacky claims, like astrology — if the proponents are clever about which observations corroborate their predictions.

In most of California, the arguments over Proposition 23, which would suspend the state's landmark global-warming law, are dominated by theoretical claims about the measure's potential effect on jobs and the environment.

Thus, it is sometimes suggested that the routine method of conjoining theoretical claims from different scientific theories (as, for example, when earth scientists draw on parts of physics and chemistry) would not make sense unless there was a serious commitment to the approximate truth of the theoretical principles.