Sentence examples for success of theory from inspiring English sources

The challenge is creating consistency in how we define success: I also think this whole agenda needs to recognise that as well as it being based on the success of theory and implementation, measurement is key.

"That was a great success of theory and experiment and calculational method, and 't Hooft and Veltman supplied the calculational method...

The reason to accept a sentence is its contribution to the success of theory as a whole as an efficient and simple method of dealing with and predicting experience; in principle, this means the success of our theory as a whole, the whole body of sentences that we accept, in dealing with experience as a whole.

After all, these meta-theoretical virtues are criteria for the success of theories about any subject matter.

Alan Musgrave (1988) says that the only version of the no-miracles argument that might work is one appealing to the novel predictive success of theories.

Others have construed robustness arguments more along the lines of Putnam's "no miracle" argument for scientific realism, according to which the assumption of the reality of some theoretical entities is the best explanation for the predictive success of theories or, in the case of robustness, for the agreement of experimental results (Weber 2005, Ch. 8; Stegenga 2009).

In particular, attempts to 'neo-Darwinize' culture by introducing gene-like memes as units of selection as well as the many criticisms of such attempts would be equally irrelevant to the success of theories of cultural evolution.

Imagine a phlogiston theorist who, upon hearing of the success of oxygen theory, claims that his theory has been vindicated; he asserts that he has been talking about oxygen all along but just by a different name.

One might read the argument simply as cutting a supposed link between the empirical success of scientific theory and successful reference or approximate truth, as opposed to an enumerative induction per se.

The success of the theory led as well to a new conception of exact science under which every systematic discrepancy between observation and theory, no matter how small, is taken as telling us something important about the world.

Mr. Blue seemed eager to associate Dry Cell with Linkin Park, even though that band had moved away from him after the success of "Hybrid Theory".