Sentence examples for held theories from inspiring English sources

The influential American philosophers W.V. Quine and Wilfrid Sellars also held theories that could be regarded as disappearance forms of physicalistic materialism, though there is a Kantian twist to Sellars's philosophy that makes it hard to classify.

Two deeply held theories about Britain one about its voters, the other about its economy underpin them.In this section Ayes to the left The Mili-plan Fear of heights Staging the scriptures What do the police do all day?

Even the car bomb that detonated outside the Jordanian Embassy two weeks ago was instantly explained by some people here according to one of several passionately held theories about the foreign policies of Iraq and Jordan, or attributed to Mr. Hussein's family.

The findings challenge widely held theories about the nature of sexual identity.

Associationism is one of the oldest, and, in some form or another, most widely held theories of thought.

Some widely held theories about the correlates of lethality including the belief that state sponsorship and "homebase" regime-type would affect organizational lethality could not be substantiated with our data.

Not so, reckons Alasdair, who is looking to blast a hole in this commonly held theory.

That discovery, announced in June, was the latest challenge to the commonly held theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

García, McIlroy and Lawrie have won tournaments, belying the widely held theory that the USA are justifiably strong favourites.

One commonly held theory is that the existence of future-Orson Pink, from Listen, means Clara is currently pregnant with Danny's baby.

The work also casts doubt on a widely held theory about the function of Mus81.