Sentence examples for any given theory from inspiring English sources

Setting aside the rigour of the evidence (for instance, how sure am I my stone is really blue and came from that bag?), Bayes' theorem acknowledges that even if you have good evidence, the impact it has on your belief – perhaps better expressed as the credibility you place on any given theory – will depend on your prior assessment of the theories involved.

Similarly, defenders of underdetermination might assert the nonuniqueness claim that for any given theory or web of beliefs there is at least one alternative that can also be reconciled with the available evidence, or the stronger egalitarian claim that all of the contraries of any given theory can be reconciled with the available evidence equally well.

The key issue is that both the relativists and the anti-relativists could agree that the totality of evidence available does not prove the truth of any given theory.

Once we can distribute probabilities over the candidates for the real universals, then we can use those probabilities to weight the various possible distances which a hypothesis might be from any given theory.

Derrida's deconstructive readings often unearth binary oppositions that are projected as an unstable center of any given theory and thereby should make us deeply skeptical of any given method.

Distortions of the peer-reviewed literature to support any given theory about diet fall into all three categories.

Within a given theory, any entities that can play those roles fruitfully for the purposes at hand are justifiably identified with those notions — regardless of how well they comport with pre-theoretic intuitions.

How do archaeologists keep themselves from seeing only the facts that fit a given theory?

On such views, the bearing of a given body of evidence on a given theory becomes a highly relativized matter.

Different models of a given theory will share some dimensions of their state space while differing in others.

Typically, one is interested in the degree to which a successor to a given theory "goes beyond" (both descriptively and explanatorily) the theory it succeeds.