Within the framework of the context distinction, there are two main ways of conceptualizing the process of conceiving a theory.
Most commonly, the distinction is interpreted as a distinction between the process of conceiving a theory and the validation of that theory, that is, the determination of the theory's epistemic support.
But they reject the view that the process of conceiving a theory is a creative act, a mysterious guess, a hunch, a more or less instantaneous and random process.
Our objective, therefore, was to empirically investigate how agile teams evolve to maturity, as a means to conceive a theory for agile software development evolvement that considers agile teams nature.
A great biologist made fundamental discoveries and conceived a selectionist theory of the brain.
But on returning home, he straightaway conceived a strange theory which demolished the slave owners' science.
"Have you thought about lightning?" At fifty-two, I conceived a grand unified theory of squash.
However, the servo theory at the time conceived a muscle spindle-dependent reflex mechanism automatically subserving motor control without conscious intervention.
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.
He conceived such theory as adopting a reflective perspective governed by the principle of marginal utility, namely, that ideal types ought to be constructed as if all actors "had oriented their life-plans to realize the greatest utility with minimal cost".
