Sentence examples for adequacy theory from inspiring English sources

Our results support the functional adequacy theory, suggesting that it is the capacity of the ipsilateral hippocampus, most likely the remaining posterior part, which preserves verbal and visual memory encoding function after ATLR.

This is an adequacy condition for theories, not a theory itself.

It is thus difficult to distinguish between experimentally motivated questions about the empirical adequacy of microeconomic theory and questions about the empirical adequacy of game theory.

The adequacy of this theory is assessed by applying a formalization of the theory, known as the Rasch model (Rasch, 1960; Thissen & Steinberg, 1986), to categorization data for eight natural language categories and subjecting it to a formal test.

Insofar as the empirical adequacy of a theory amounts to the embeddability of observable phenomena within substructures of the theory's models, the constructive empiricist's account of empirical adequacy rests heavily on the distinction between what is observable and what is not.

The latter type of generalization brought to the fore the question of the intensional adequacy of a theory's proof concept.

At the same time, belief in the empirical adequacy of a theory is sufficiently cautious as to allow the believer to remain faithful to the spirit of empiricism.

Bas van Fraassen's (1980) constructive empiricism takes the desideratum of science to be empirical adequacy: what a theory says about the observable should be true.

The "explanation objection" does deny the explanatory adequacy of evolutionary theory; in particular, it denies the adequacy of evolutionary explanations of human choice-making, of human thought and behavior.

Since the empirical adequacy of a theory is not threatened by the existence of another that is empirically equivalent to it, fulfilling this aim has nothing to fear from the possibility of such empirical equivalents.

(van Fraassen 1994, 188 192) A sufficiently unreflective constructive empiricist might adopt this construal of empirical adequacy for her theory, but a more sophisticated constructive empiricist would probably embrace an account of empirical adequacy akin to that which van Fraassen develops later in The Scientific Image.