Sentence examples for candidate theory from inspiring English sources

Many think it a desideratum in metaethical theorizing that a candidate theory be consistent with all or most normative theories actually defended by serious normative ethical proponents.

The idea that musical emotion arises from little violations and manipulations of our expectations seems the most promising candidate theory, but it is very hard to test.

Offhand, it seems that the particular infinite sequence that is actualized will be assigned probability zero by any plausible candidate theory that regards the probability of heads as intermediate and the trials as independent.

If economic desert or merit is regarded as measurable and the desert theorist holds that in a just political economy, individuals are remunerated and rewarded in proportion to their level of desert, justice as deservingness becomes a candidate theory of justice.

Second, how often are one candidate theory's ontological commitments a proper subset of another's?

Obama took the unconventional candidate theory to a new extreme.

There are, however, more sophisticated "best candidate" theories that are not vulnerable to this objection (Nozick 1982).

We expand the pool of candidate theories to include chain-based statistical mechanics and hybrid theories to explore the range of representative models of the MCL.

Nonetheless it may be true that once local material or empirical constraints are used to restrict the class of candidate theories to be compared with respect to the unification they achieve, something like counting basic assumptions or number of free parameters (or more plausibly something in the same spirit but more sophisticated) furnishes useful information about degree of unification achieved.

All candidate theories still have major formal and conceptual problems to overcome.

The viral e-mail campaign which circulated wild Manchurian candidate theories about Obama literally around the world seems to have kicked off in early 2006.