Sentence examples for supposed theory from inspiring English sources

Much of this attention has been devoted to his supposed theory of the "end" of art.

The supposed theory behind this silly new rule is to open up the flow of credit.

I am not certain how to feel about the supposed theory of "self-sufficiency" and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps when I feel that there are a number of barriers facing me that are beyond my control.

by all the "breakthroughs" and "revolutions" that have failed to live up to their hype: string theory and other supposed "theories of everything," self-organized criticality and other theories of complexity, anti-angiogenesis drugs and other potential "cures" for cancer, drugs that can make depressed patients "better than well," "genes for" alcoholism, homosexuality, high IQ and schizophrenia.

This is the thesis, defended by Bas van Fraassen in his 1980 book, The Scientific Image, that the aim of science (or at least "pure" science) is the construction of theories that are "empirically adequate" (that is, that yield a true or correct description of observables) and not, as scientific realists suppose, theories that aim to tell literally true stories about unobservables.

In country after country, we used the supposed "domino theory" of communist progress to explain away our support of murderers.

Since then, more evidence has emerged to strengthen those supposed "conspiracy theories".

Supposed alternative theories such as Intelligent Design are mute in explaining these rampant similarities.

Ruane's responses remained non-committal, explaining that schools could choose their own resources to support lessons and refrained from any criticism of the supposed alternative theories.

Laudan and Leplin also suggest, however, that even if the universal existence of empirical equivalents were conceded, this would do much less to establish the significance of underdetermination than its champions have supposed, because "theories with exactly the same empirical consequences may admit of differing degrees of evidential support" (1991, 465).

But suppose the theory or design behind RHIC is fatally flawed?