The art is conscripted into serving a theory, instead of the other way around.
If economic theory fails to reflect consumer behaviour, perhaps consumers can be remoulded, better to serve the theory.
The Avicennian concept was adopted by others, such as Henry of Ghent and Duns Scotus, and thus served the theory of the plurality of substantial forms.
Thus, the data on which this study was based were not selected by us a priori to serve any theory or preconception about the immune system.
Because the numerator for a given area records immunizations of children who have consumed a service located in that area, and the denominator estimates the number of children served, in theory, by that area's services on grounds of residency, the validity of coverage indicators depends on the extent to which the attraction and catchment areas overlap.
A semi-classical model was derived directly from the two-state approximation in the ET theory, serving as a device for studying mQCA gates.
Based on our own research experience, we discuss one aspect of this normative methodology, namely the selection of an ethical theory serving as a background for empirical-ethical research.
At his best, Mr. Harrison is one of the great alto players of our time, and his music gently serves forth theories on the permeability of black music, mixing together rhythms from the Caribbean and funk and jazz history.
3. Though these theories were introduced to account for the content of commonsense psychological states, they may (in broad outline at least) also serve as theories of content determination for the various sorts of sub-personal informational states postulated by cognitive science.
Empirical concepts serve descriptive theories that answer to a world amenable to empirical investigation.
But normative concepts serve normative theories and it is entirely unclear they answer to empirical evaluation beyond, perhaps, the familiar counsel that ought implies can.
