Sentence examples for example of theory from inspiring English sources

The original discovery of antimatter was a nice example of theory predicting an undiscovered fact.

In the piece, he describes it as "a relatively pure example of theory coming first and application afterward," and he offers a humorous account of a 1974 meeting between top supply-side evangelists and a "baffled" Dick Cheney, who appeared bewildered by the new theory.

In an example of theory use in program development from the pre-IM era, the first author of this paper was involved in a project targeting the modification of the driving behavior for energy saving (Siero et al., 1989; Kok et al., 2011).

As a matter of fact, as long as the selected worlds resemble w locally as required they could differ maximally from the world of reference.[10] One paradigmatic example of theories of this sort is the one offered in by Dov Gabbay (1972).

With additional scaffolding focused on concepts of scale, randomness, uncertainty, and variation, this curriculum could offer promising new venues for studying student learning of proposed "threshold" concepts (Taylor, 2006; Ross et al., 2010) as well as other integrative learning models and provides a valuable example of theory-driven curriculum development.

The theory of the firm in economics, of deviance in sociology, of communication in political science, of attitude formation in social psychology, of divergent development in cultural anthropology are all examples of theory in every proper sense of the word.

Popper suggested Einstein's theory of gravitation as an example of a theory that clearly satisfied the criterion of falsifiability.

In support of that view, instrumentalists commonly point out that the history of science is replete with examples of theories that were at one time widely considered true but are now almost universally rejected.

Table 2 gives examples of theory-based methods at the individual and environmental levels.

This paper explains the simple structure of a rigorous scientific theory and offers examples of theory-driven design choices that produced substantial benefits.

Examples of theories that do not satisfy our additional properties appear to be undecidable, which suggests that our characterization is reasonably tight.