Sentence examples for historical theory from inspiring English sources

It advances no cultural or historical theory.

Pacifism led to anarchism, for he came to believe that pacifism rested "solely upon the historical theory of anarchism".

But there is little danger of Germany rehabilitating Hitler, even in the driest and most academic corners of historical theory.

He explored social and historical theory in his first major works, Prolegomena to History (1916) and Theory of History (1925).

He reads Thomas Kuhn's historical theory of scientific development and decides that Atkins is achieving nothing less than a dietary "paradigm change".

It is far better that, like Grant, he remembers that the true cause of the war was never really abstract political doctrine or historical theory, but slavery, which had a human face.

DNA testing was refused on the grounds that it could set a precedent for testing historical theories that would lead to multiple royal disinterments.

Interdisciplinary Connections: American History/Global History- Conduct research to find well-established historical theories that have been debunked due to new evidence or research.

This chimerical assassin vanished in 1925, when the archival sleuth Leslie Hotson unearthed the coroner's inquest among uncatalogued "Chancery miscellanea" at the Public Record Office; but he remains an icon of the dangerously provisional nature of all historical theories.

Many of them were influenced by the moral theories of Kant in their estimate of what was permanent about the teachings of Jesus and by the historical theories of Hegel in the way they related the original message of Jesus to the Christian interpretations of that message by later generations of Christians.

Externalist theories are thus historical theories.