Sentence examples for given a theory from inspiring English sources

He never took himself to have given a theory of them, only to have given a theory of where they would be needed.

Given a theory and some observations, by filtering the theory with the observations, we mean selecting only those models of the theory that entail the observations.

In this respect, Goodman's theory is similar to many semantic theories of art: it proves that expression, for example, describes a symbolic relation only by giving a theory of symbolism that is so general as to include almost every human artifact.

Suppose we encounter a novel phenomenon, and attempt to give a theory of it.

More generally, as we see in much of the work of Davidson and of Dummett (e.g., 1959; 1976; 1983 19911), giving a theory of truth conditions can be understood as a crucial part of giving a theory of meaning.

We do not need to give a theory that postulates any substances or processes specific to the explanation of attention.

The task of giving a theory of ability is then simply the task of articulating the relevant accessibility relation.

Ernest Adams, in two articles (1965, 1966) and a subsequent book (1975), gave a theory of the validity of arguments involving conditionals as construed by Supp.

Perhaps the best way of capturing the cognitive nature of assertion is to to give a theory of the cognitive features of normal communication by means of assertion.

But our ordinary notion of ability, that of which we are attempting to give a theory, seems to involve both psychological and non-psychological requirements.

This gives a theory of scientific reasoning in which the structure of the arguments is intimately tied up with the structure of the causal chains that they demonstrate.