Rather than invoking truth or falsity, we should consider whether a research programme – the hard core of hypotheses that constitute a theory – is progressing or degenerating.
As far as epistemology is concerned, the critical philosophy constitutes a theory of science that agrees with current trends, for science must have a base that is empirical though also real.
Equations 4 and 5 constitute a theory of how the response is related to the predictors in Pr(Y, X).
This is because the common formulation of these disputes constitutes a theory or dao of how to cultivate the unerring interpretive access to other dao.
The unified brain mind theoretical OA model explicitly captures (though in an informal way) the basic essence of brain functional architecture, which indeed constitutes a theory of consciousness.
If (CA) were true, it would constitute a theory of ability in that it would say under exactly what conditions some agent has the ability to perform some action without making reference to the idea of ability itself.
Similar remarks can be made when we turn to ontology, in particular formal ontology: the part/whole relation, boundaries of systems, ideas of space, etc. Ellerman (1988) has bravely attempted to show that category theory constitutes a theory of universals, one having properties radically different from set theory, which is also seen as a theory of universals.
Often, theories are described in terms of understanding relationships between phenomena which have not been or were not well understood before (Chiles 2003; Edmondson and McManus 2007; Shah and Corley 2006), but there is no overall acceptance as to what constitutes a theory.
This is modelled representationally by the transitivity system, which is "that part of grammar which constitutes a theory of 'goings-on'" (ibid).. Categorisation of the six processes types (Material, Mental, Relational, Verbal, Existential and Behavioural) is based upon the experiential structure of the clause (the syntax and semantics of the elements, specifically the process and participants).
I suggest this approach because setting "expected fitness" as the dependent variable does not itself constitute a theory at all.
