"constructing a theory" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of creating or developing a theory in any academic or scientific field. Here is an example: "The researchers spent months constructing a theory to explain the unusual behavior of the new species of insects they discovered."
In constructing a theory for the precession of the equinoxes, for example, he was trying to build a model based upon very small, long-term effects.
Pure jurisprudence guides ethics in constructing a theory of humanity by overcoming a problem that, Cohen thinks, any theory of humanity faces.
According to van Fraassen, explanations are answers to questions and getting clear about the logic of questions is central to constructing a theory of explanation.
Non-cognitivists have developed various ingenious strategies for constructing a theory that preserves the intuitive logical relations between normative attitudes, non-normative attitudes and various mixed attitudes, along with the sentences that express them.
That is, one should accept only those principles and axioms in natural philosophy that are based upon sufficient observational and experimental evidence and one should avoid constructing a theory without recourse to observation and experiment.
If one's goal, in constructing a theory of location, is to articulate the necessary and a priori truths governing location and its interaction with parthood, then even McDaniel's modest point still counts against including No Interpenetration in one's theory.
In this paper we rely on the constructal law of maximization of flow access in order to construct a theory of geometry generation (selection, evolution) during molten droplet impact.
Von Neumann and Morgenstern understood this distinction; to accommodate all players, whatever their goals, they constructed a theory of utility.
To me, at least, this seems like a thin reed on which to construct a theory of deniability for the Trump campaign and the Trump White House.
If you wanted to, you could perhaps construct a theory that the two films, placed together, trace America's postindustrial urban decline.
How exactly can one construct a theory of meaning without first saying what it is for a speaker to understand a language?
