Sentence examples for as a theory on from inspiring English sources

Read this way in the context of the rest of the Book, the "deduction" is most appropriately viewed as intended to establish universal gravity, but only provisionally, as a theory on which further research is to be predicated, research that will continue to bring evidence to bear on the theory.

As a philosopher with a mathematical background, Husserl was interested in developing a general theory of inferential systems, which (following Bolzano) he conceived of as a theory of science, on the ground that every science (including mathematics) can be looked upon as a system of propositions that are interconnected by a set of inferential relations.

AHP was introduced by Saaty (1980) for decision-making as a theory of relative measurement based on paired comparisons used to derive normalized absolute scales of numbers, the elements of which are then used as priorities.

The appeal of retributive justice as a theory of punishment rests in part on direct intuitive support, in part on the claim that it is better than alternative accounts of punishment, and in part on arguments tying it to deeper moral principles.

In the end, the success of biosemantics as a theory of mental representation may depend on the extent to which the theory can be confirmed by empirical research.

As an airplane pilot, Lindemann validated a theory on how to recover from a tailspin.

In 1973 he published The Central Questions of Philosophy, in which he returned to familiar topics in the theory of knowledge and presented a commonsense conception of the world as a theory founded on the basis of sense-data.

These were compared with the dispersion relations extrapolated from experiment as well as a theory based on harmonic approximation.

On Tuesday, the panel's Democrats denounced the Republicans' report as "a conspiracy theory on steroids – bringing back long-debunked allegations with no credible evidence whatsoever".

While the incentive structure approach has found its main application in the social and economic integration of immigrants, the opportunity structure approach exists as a theory within the literature on social movements, and has been mainly applied to theorize the political integration of immigrants.

Several good review papers [23 26] as well as a theory paper [27] are available on nanofluidics.