Sentence examples for descriptive theory from inspiring English sources

A descriptive theory for this behaviour is proposed, which is based on the well-established theory that a build-up of radicals and intermediate species is responsible for autoignition of these flames.

Presenting a descriptive theory of university-industry technology transfer, it contends that the difficulties of conveying tacit knowledge encourage various forms of organizational integration by which licensees directly absorb faculty inventors (and their tacit knowledge) into their operations.

As economics prepares to enter the twenty first century, we will certainly need to explore further both the implications of rationality and their limitations, both normative theory and descriptive theory, and new methods of both theoretical and empirical research.

Some such descriptive theory of culture can provide us with enough purchase on the role of culture to diagnose the attractiveness of a cultural production system from a political-theory perspective.

As a normative system providing a standard by which an individual ought to act and by which the existing practices of society, including its moral code, ought to be evaluated and improved, utilitarianism cannot be verified or confirmed in the way in which a descriptive theory can, but it is not regarded by its exponents as simply arbitrary.

While critiquing is generally recognized as an essential pedagogical tool in architecture design studios, no systematic attempt has been made to develop a descriptive theory that can account for the complexity of critiquing.

One of the most frequent uses of situation-based frameworks is in the analysis of "donkey" pronouns, that is, anaphoric pronouns that are interpreted as definite descriptions (see descriptive theories of anaphora under the entry descriptions and the entry anaphora).

In that case, something along the lines of the venerable descriptivism associated with Frege and Russell (see the subsection on description theories in the entry on reference and the section on descriptive theories of proper names in the entry on descriptions), which Kripke is widely thought to have devastated, survives.

Whatever the merits of these views, they clearly abandon some of the key motivations for the descriptive theories of names—in particular the idea that the description could do the work of providing the sense of the name.

According to descriptive theories, a proper name refers to the individual who satisfies the descriptions most associated with that name.

But I suggest that a failure in the process of concept formation and its associated top-down inhibition of the parts that make up the whole may offer a mechanism that could unite the current descriptive theories.