It would be pointless, he wrote, to try, by the standard of theory, a part of the Constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result, not of theory, but "of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable".
In fact, Einstein's special theory of relativity is the "gold standard" of theories, having withstood over 100 years of experimental verification.
Kuhn (1977) even claims that epistemic values define the shared commitments of science, that is, the standards of theory assessment that characterize the scientific approach as a whole.
Kuhn challenged the traditional view of scientific method as a set of rules, claiming that the standards of theory appraisal, such as simplicity, accuracy, consistency, scope and fruitfulness (1977, 322), depend on and vary with the currently dominant paradigm.
However, he addresses the necessity of careful interpretation of HGT data, and points to the requirement of first discussing such data in the light of standard theories of vertical inheritance of genes.
During his long career, Walter Burley worked out two different accounts of the standard realist theory of knowledge, both of which are critical of the most common theories of his time.
For if physical objects do have categorical properties, those properties will not count as physical by the standards of the theory conception.
Methodological incommensurability is the idea that there are no shared, objective standards of scientific theory appraisal, so that there are no external or neutral standards that univocally determine the comparative evaluation of competing theories (Sankey and Hoyningen-Huene 2001, xiii).
Both winners of the award -- the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science -- tested the limits of the standard economic theory of choice in predicting the actions of real people.
These processes should result in strong adhesion of the tendon graft to the wall of the bone tunnel from the perspective of standard theories of wound healing.
A substantial part of Nāgārjuna's epistemological discussion is therefore dedicated to a criticism of the standard Nyāya theory of knowledge.
