Sentence examples for earlier theory from inspiring English sources

According to the earlier theory, the presence of siblings increases the chances of infections in early life.

As a result, Dr. Pound said he favored an alternative explanation, an earlier theory known as the cometary model.

This new employment led to Theory and Technique of Playwriting and Screenwriting (1949), a revised edition of his earlier Theory and Technique of Playwriting (1936).

But the theory is plausible only because a single killer fact murdered an earlier theory — which held that an unseen star was out there, doing the perturbing and the extincting.

Assuming that both radioactive nuclei and their stable neighbours are produced by the neutron-capture process discussed earlier, theory predicts a relative production rate for all of the nuclei.

A similar result can be found in an earlier theory upon which Goodman's is to some extent modelled the one proposed by Langer in her Philosophy in a New Key (1942) and Feeling and Form (1953).

Shtulman and colleagues summarize their findings: When students learn scientific theories that conflict with earlier, naïve theories, what happens to the earlier theories?

Why tickling should produce laughter remained an enigma in all earlier theories of the comic.

Recent research has focused on the shared legacy of Europeans in contrast to earlier theories that focused on differences.

As the second-century sports hack Philostratus the Athenian wrote in his Gymnasticus, Leonidas' "versatility made all earlier theories on runner's body types obsolete".

These revisions, however, do not rattle physicists, since the earlier theories almost always remain mathematically valid in some way or other.