Sentence examples for incorrect theory from inspiring English sources

Does it matter that Mr. Obama has embraced an incorrect theory about what motivates working-class voters?

He presented his theory of clouds and his more general (though incorrect) theory of storms before scientific audiences in the United States and Europe and in his Philosophy of Storms (1841).

Indeed, the term "gene" itself is derived indirectly from Darwin's (incorrect) theory of blending inheritance known as "pangenesis," which was presented in volume II of The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.

The arrangement of inside surface connected to outside surface was on the basis of the incorrect theory that there was an electric current in muscles continually flowing from the inside to the outside.

However, be careful not to make them think that their outlandish (and incorrect) theory is veritable fact.

In fact, many incorrect theories of superconductivity were advanced before the BCS theory was proposed.

Judging from the recent publication by evolutionary scientists of decidedly politically incorrect theories, it certainly seems that way.

texts of Galen helped keep medicine in the Dark Ages for centuries with their supremely logical but completely incorrect theories of how derangement of the four humors caused most human disease.

If the evidence about language available to children does not enable them to reject false hypotheses, and if they nonetheless hit on the correct grammar, then language learning could not be a kind of scientific inquiry, which depends in part on being able to find evidence to weed out incorrect theories.

While criticism does play an important role in some current approaches in social epistemology, Popper's own views are more closely approximated by evolutionary epistemology, especially that version that treats cognitive progress as the effect of selection against incorrect theories and hypotheses.

It is unfortunate that these mistakenly attributed concepts serve as the primary legacy of Lamarck, who in actuality made several important contributions to biology (a term first used by Lamarck), including greatly advancing the classification of invertebrates (another term he coined) and, of course, developing the first (albeit ultimately incorrect) mechanistic theory of evolution.