Sentence examples for intuitive theory from inspiring English sources

Seized computer files in both Spain and Colombia show that ETA, which declared a permanent ceasefire in 2011, had been in contact with the FARC at least since 1993.A less intuitive theory holds that Mr Londoño may have been attacked by his own allies on the extreme right in an attempt to destabilise the government, which they see as having gone soft on the FARC.

Taken together, these results support the view that the human intuitive theory of functions is inherently compositional.

As a final remark, we believe that the contributions presented in this paper are a first step towards a unified and intuitive theory for digital image watermarking.

As I recently analyzed, the antiaging effect of CR rules out the most intuitive theory of aging (see for reference, Blagosklonny).

INTUITIVE theories are often easier to believe in than to prove.

She explained to me, instantly, that it was normal for children to develop intense attachments to pets, even "zombic" ones that did not reciprocate affection, and that a pair of Japanese psychologists, Hatano and Inagaki, had done studies of how children develop intuitive theories of biology by having pets.

To the extent that formal and intuitive theories may give different verdicts, these questions may be of considerable practical importance.

Very little is known, however, about what circumstances lead individuals to apply their formal versus intuitive theories to a problem when these theories disagree.

According to Carey, important shifts in children's intuitive theories take place during the ages of five to seven (Carey 1985).

We speculate that people may be more likely to rely on their formal theories in the abstract and more likely to default to their earlier, intuitive theories in the concrete.

Indeed, under time pressure, expert biologists fall back on their intuitive theories of biology, according to which plants are non-living (Goldberg & Thompson-Schill, 2009) and expert physical scientists endorse teleological explanations for physical phenomena (e.g. "Trees produce oxygen so that animals can breathe"; Kelemen, Rottman, & Seston, 2013).