Sentence examples for preferred theory from inspiring English sources
The major New Critics and New York critics were followed by major but difficult academic critics, who preferred theory to close reading.
Judge Frank Bell, of Escambia County Circuit Court here, ruled in the middle of that trial that Mr. Rimmer could not pursue his preferred theory, that Mr. Chavis had encouraged the killing, because he had not presented any evidence to support it.
The second Fletcher expanded on the preferred theory of his namesake.
While relativity theory is the preferred theory of the Syntactic View, Newtonian mechanics is more straightforward.
A more extended discussion, including a presentation of Chisholm's preferred theory of appearing, can be found in Chapter 8 ("Sensing") of [PPS].
In most cases, the theorist will have to reluctantly conclude that several policy options are sufficiently just according to their preferred theory, and then rely on a procedural-political solution afforded by some variant of so-called deliberative democracy.
Needless to say, Mr Black prefers theory.The hunt for losersCan efficient-market theory and evidence of inefficiency be reconciled?
What is so sad is that the recommendations for such a course of action have been around for years, but studiously ignored by politicians and officials, who seem to prefer theory to fact when determining which evidence to select.
Just as the Teutonic reputation for efficiency forgives countless thousands of lazy Germans, and the British reputation for fair play rather grates with, for example, three centuries of empire, so the French reputation for preferring theory to practice, and contradictions to clarity, reduces an ever-more diverse nation to so many automata.
As noted above, Longino (1994) argues that feminists have reason to prefer theories that manifest other cognitive values, such as diffusion of power.
Also favoring nominalism is Occam's principle which would have us prefer theories with fewer sorts of entities, other things being equal.
