Sentence examples for incomplete theories from inspiring English sources

The existence of incomplete theories is hardly surprising.

The converse, though, does not always hold: there are incomplete theories which are decidable.

He points out that in view of Gödel's incompleteness results, no matter how many new finitary rules or axioms we add to certain higher-order theories, they will still remain incomplete theories, in fact ω-incomplete theories.

Unlike the above sort of trivially incomplete theories, which can be easily completed, there is no way of completing the relevant theories; all their extensions, inasmuch as they are still formal systems and hence axiomatizable, are also incomplete.

Discovered by the Routleys (1972) as a semantical tool for relevant logics, the * operation dualises between inconsistent and incomplete theories of the large natural class of de Morgan logics.

Given a supposition which seems to be conceivable, namely that whatever happens or is true, happens or is true on an open set of (spacetime) points, one has that the logic of dynamically possible paths is open set logic, that is to say intuitionist logic, which supports incomplete theories par excellence.

Kripke (1975) proposed instead to model a truth predicate differently, in a consistent incomplete theory.

If the second of these criticisms is correct, then retributive justice provides an incomplete theory of punishment, one that at most explains why wrongdoers deserve censure and forfeit the right not to be punished up to some proportional limit.

Albert Einstein and others objected to the implications of these lines of thought and insisted that quantum mechanics was an incomplete theory precisely because it did not support old-fashioned literal realism.

To investigate these topics, scholars elaborated on specific theoretical tools, essentially standard agency theory (SAT), incomplete contract theory and game theory.

Our findings about the determinants of incentive devices in China support predictions of the agency theory and the incomplete contracts theory.