Sentence examples for assumptions of a theory from inspiring English sources

In this way symmetry arguments acquire an explanatory power and help to minimize the unexplained basic assumptions of a theory.

As critics have pointed out (and almost all commentators have been critical), Friedman refers to several different things as "assumptions" of a theory and means several different things by speaking of assumptions as "unrealistic" (Brunner 1969).

Note that Rickert is not questioning one of the inescapable assumptions of any theory of knowledge, namely, that there has to be some subject-independent yardstick or criterion that validates knowledge.

Once Perrin was able to calculate the mean kinetic energy of the Brownian particles he could support the most basic assumptions of kinetic theory without a need to complicate matters by adding additional hypotheses.

To do so, we have to strengthen the assumptions of the theory in a way that only those events are assumed to occur which have been explicitly stated in the discourse.

Instead, geometers showed that if one wrote down an up-to-date version of Euclid's other assumptions, in the form of a theory T, then it was possible to find models of T which fail to satisfy the parallel postulate.

Automatic adjustment of parameters is strongly recommended, because manually-adjusted parameters decrease the significance of the results, just like arbitrary assumptions decrease the significance of a theory.

A philosophical rôle of CL is to show the variability of the ontological assumptions a theory has.

For example, students conduct an experiment to evaluate optimal foraging theory, in which they test several assumptions of the theory, collect data using a naïve classmate as a forager, and analyze the data.

Notice, though, the methodological assumption here: a theory of identity's plausibility depends significantly on how well it accounts for our practical concerns.

By integrating sociocultural accounts with assumptions of recent schema theory, the script theory of guidance addresses these criticisms.