Pudovkin, a Russian musicologist, defined a theory and practice of film music in the early 1930s, advocating a close and contrapuntal relationship between sound and sight.
Halle and Keyser's insistence in their essay that prosody be "the study of the abstract patterns the different arrangements of linguistic givens that underlie all performances of a given poem" and their use of Chaucer to rigorously define a theory of prosody helped spur the development of what has been called generative metrics.
Instead Bodin systematized and defined a theory of sovereignty.
In fact, one of the most common textbooks used across the country in an introduction to biological anthropology class is guilty of just such a transgression: the textbook Introduction to Physical Anthropology by Jurmain et al. (2005) defines a theory as "a broad statement of scientific relationships or underlying principles that has been at least partially verified" (p. 16).
This same line was often referenced in the work of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) who (building on the work of Leibniz and Hegel) explored mysticism in many of his works, in which he defines a theory of truth as phenomenal and defying any rational explanation.
Realist evaluators commonly grapple with how to define a theory (what, eg, is the difference between a 'programme theory' and a 'middle-range theory'?) and what level of abstraction is appropriate in what circumstances.
Realist reviewers commonly grapple with how to define a theory (what, for example, is the difference between a 'programme theory' and a 'middle-range theory'?) and what level of abstraction is appropriate in what circumstances.
In this paper, we follow the formal tradition of theory building in sociology [ 11- 13], and define a theory as a body of related ideas that forms the foundation for three kinds of conceptual work: describing, explaining and predicting observed phenomena.
Funnell and Rogers define a program theory as, " an explicit theory or model of how an intervention, such as a project, a program, a strategy, an initiative, or a policy contributes to a chain of intermediate results and finally to the intended or observed outcomes" [ 14].
The two women are preparing for a conference of various scholars in Paris in September, with the aim of defining precisely a theory of extraterritoriality.
