But it is already almost certain that his "three represents" theory will be the centerpiece at the major party congress this fall.
In the last few weeks, among scores of similar tributes, the Central Party School's newspaper described Mr. Jiang's "three represents" theory as "the basis of our party, its foundation for governing and the source of its strength".
It is essential to distinguish between large-scale and small-scale views of caste society, which may respectively be said to represent theory and practice, or ideology and the existing social reality.
Causal DAGs represent theory, and theory needs to be developed within the context of all the evidence (basic science, observational and clinical trials) available.
The major feature of models is that they are used for representation in two senses: they represent theories or data or real entities by being their representatives (to be directly manipulated and studied instead of what they are models of) and by resembling (or corresponding to) them in certain relevant aspects and sufficient degrees relative to the purposes to which they are put.
Scientific realists hold that successful scientific theories represent theory-independent phenomena.
Mathematical economics is the application of mathematical methods to represent theories and analyze problems in economics.
Perhaps, it has been joked, physicists might have an easier time getting funding from the Bush Administration if they represented string theory as a "faith-based initiative".
Schlick represented Gestalt theory as psychology within the reductive framework of physicalism, that is, rejecting the existence of autonomous entities, laws and methods of psychology.
The first model of quantum mechanics (Heisenberg, 1925) represented the theory's operators by infinite-dimensional matrices acting on quantum states.
In this sample, in which lower socioeconomic status was well represented, the theory did better in predicting intention than is usually reported in the literature (ie, 65% in this study, 40% frequently reported) demonstrating the theoretical coherence of the data.
