Sentence examples for modest theory from inspiring English sources

He also offered a rather modest theory for why his store is so popular.

But while the campaign is still young and there is time for remedial action, Bagehot would like to propose his own modest theory.

A modest theory only aims to directly account for the contents of representational simples.

A somewhat more modest theory is one on which any agent has the ability to do anything that is metaphysically possible.

A slightly more modest theory holds that Kenya has indeed been planning for a limited military intervention to build a more effective buffer zone along the border inside Somalia - where it already co-operates with various ineffective local militias opposed to al-Shabab and into which it intends to push some of the tens of thousands of Somali refugees now camped in Kenya.

As with other modest theories, however, the challenge is explaining how to link this modest theory for some mental contents to a more comprehensive theory that accounts for all of the contents of all of our concepts (see section section 3.4).

Some say that "modest" theories have some seriously immodest consequences.

The greatest challenge to those offering modest theories will be to explain how complex concepts can be composed out of or derived from simpler concepts.

It might fairly be said that it is not the task of a fundamental theory of mental content per se to explain how complex concepts can be composed out of simpler ones, but it is a problem for modest theories if no such explanation is available.

Alternatively, modest theories can maintain that these two representations are semantically complex, in which case there might be a difference (even a referential difference) in the constituent concepts out of which TRIANGULAR and TRILATERAL are composed (e.g., one mentions angles and one does not).

Arguably, non-modest theories deliver the correct referential content.