Sentence examples for physical theory and from inspiring English sources
These issues relate directly to traditional problems in the philosophy of science, including the status of the laws of nature, the relationships between mathematics, physical theory, and the world, and the extent to which mathematics suggests new physics.
Epicurus made significant changes to atomist physical theory, and some of these have been traced to Aristotle's criticisms of Democritus.
In such ways, Lie groups provide a means of unifying the many models allowed by a physical theory and of introducing some degree of homogeneity among them.
The investigation results will also provide us a powerful guide to design coating with high thermal insulation property using the physical theory and mechanism of the ITR.
As a prerequisite for this work he found it necessary to ask "What is a physical theory?" and developed a general concept of a theory on the first 80 pages of his (1970).
Stoic ethics achieves a certain plausibility within the context of their physical theory and psychology, and within the framework of Greek ethical theory as that was handed down to them from Plato and Aristotle.
His revolutionary physical theories and his advocacy for peace at times of war and for better treatment of those in need were often unpopular.
He argues that Paul Samuelson, the Nobel laureate whom many credit with endowing economists with a mathematical tool kit, "showed that a lot of physical theories and concepts had economic analogs".
Both our physical theories and our interpretations of the Bible are likely to evolve.
Auyang seeks to extract the "primitive conceptual structure" in physical theories and she too finds it in what she calls the "representation-transformation-invariant structure".
One possible response, assuming the lack of empirical import of such theories, is simply to reject that they are physical theories, and as such they are not the sorts of theories for which the mathematical fictionalist needs to provide a nominalistic counterpart.
