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Discover LudwigThe phrase "advances a theory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the development or promotion of a particular theory in academic or intellectual contexts.
Example: "In her latest research paper, she advances a theory that challenges traditional views on climate change."
Alternatives: "proposes a theory" or "puts forward a theory".
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But in an effort to explain the origins of the myth of pedophilia, Leach also advances a theory that strikes this reader as too subtle by half.
This conceptual article advances a theory of Social-Enterprise Systems-Engineering (SESE) as an applied discipline and as an addition to the development intervention field.
Exploring the tense but inevitable relationship between liberalism and authority, he advances a theory of democratic citizenship tempered by appreciation of the ways in which citizenship is implicated with and augments authority.
While engaged in a recent campaign to preserve a former workhouse in London, Richardson, a historian, discovered that the young Charles Dickens had twice lived just doors away — first as a small boy and then again in his late teens — and advances a theory that the institution served as the model for the unnamed workhouse in "Oliver Twist".
Character consequentialism thus rejects hedonism, the view that identifies welfare with happiness, and advances a theory in which the good has two major components.
In On the Cognition he tries to erase the traditional sharp division between the mental and the physical in two specific ways: First, he advances a theory that minds consist in forces [Kräfte] which manifest themselves in people's bodily behavior — just as physical nature contains forces which manifest themselves in the behavior of bodies.
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Mr. Donovan advanced a theory of pop evolution.
He also advanced a theory of chemical indicators.
We then advance a theory of how humans use hypothetical reasoning to think about personality traits.
Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe has advanced a theory similar to Google's about the activities of broadband providers.
Some protesters and law enforcement leaders criticized Comey for advancing a theory without national data to back it up.
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