Sentence examples for model of theory from inspiring English sources

The Nagel model of theory reduction offers a clear vision of the "unity of science" (see the entry on unity of science).

In defense of his model of theory reduction, Schaffner (1976) replies that it is sufficient to specify one such molecular situation.

Kenneth F. Schaffner applied the logical empiricist model of theory reduction to the relationship between classical, Mendelian genetics and the new molecular genetics (Schaffner 1967a; Schaffner 1967b; Schaffner 1969).

Recent reduction debates in the philosophy of science were initiated by Ernest Nagel's model of theory reduction (Nagel 1949, 1961, 1970), which has also received considerable attention in the philosophy of mind (see, e.g., Fodor 1981: 150; Kim 1993: 150, 248).

Sexual Abuse of Males: The SAM Model of Theory and Practice.

Sometimes, however, the Nagel model has been characterized as an epistemological model of reduction, because it is a model of theory-reduction (Sarkar 1992; Hoyningen-Huene 1989; Silberstein 2002), because it is a model of explanatory reduction (Sarkar 1992), or because bridge-laws are to be interpreted epistemologically (Fazekas 2009, following Klein 2009).

In Moschovakis 1973, this method is adapted to construct a model of theories of intuitionistic analysis in terms of choice sequences.

Many models of theory reduction derive from the account of reduction due to Ernest Nagel (1949, 1961).

Our method was to demonstrate modeling of theory use as a teaching strategy.

Models of theory reduction were of primary interest in post-positivist philosophy of science that emerged in the 1960s and have received the most attention (Schaffner 1993).

In line with models of theory reduction, Weber maintains that the explanans essentially involves biochemical ("physico-chemical") laws, which carry the explanatory force.