In the absence of direct empirical evidence, the above question then becomes whether and how far the predictive and explanatory power of theories based on SSB provides good reasons for believing in the existence of the hidden symmetries.
This essay examines the history of economic and social regulations over the last three decades, the explanatory power of theories of regulatory politics, the choice of regulatory instruments, the assessment of regulatory impacts, and the influence of each of these on the innovation and diffusion of technology (and of regulation).
By increasing the power of our experimental capabilities and by combining the powers of theory, simulation and experiment, today's views of folding involve a landscape that contains significant ruggedness, even for the smallest and simplest proteins known.
But, one might naturally think, no scientist can acknowledge the explanatory power of a theory without taking the theory to be true.
The broad applicability of the VIST concept can help your students recognize both the logic that underlies evolutionary theory and the power of the theory for helping us understand many different sorts of phenomena.
Reznick shows clearly the explanatory power of evolutionary theory, debunks the concept that "theory" and "guess" are synonymous, and subtly but effectively reveals the intellectual bankruptcy of the current generation of antievolutionists (whatever they call themselves).
In this paper I assess the explanatory powers of theories of function in the context of products that may result from synthetic biology.
For the constructive empiricist, the explanatory power of a theory amounts to nothing more than the theory's ability to provide certain bits of information in response to contextually defined queries.
Because it provides easily testable quantitative predictions, LMC theory is a textbook example of the predictive power of evolutionary theory [ 8, 9, 13- 20].
There is a suppressed premise that it is inadmissible to load up a physical theory with hidden properties that outstrip both observation and the determining power of the theory.
