Sentence examples for term theory from inspiring English sources

Jean Baudrillard, for one, coined the term "theory fiction" and speculated on scenarios for future real worlds that were more wild and improbable than science fiction.

The Thinking Raven The term "theory of mind" refers to the fundamental ability of a person to understand that other people can have intentions or desires that are different.

In his seminal monograph The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Kuhn displaced the term theory from its central position in philosophical discussions of the sciences, preferring instead to talk of "paradigms".

Evolution as a principle is not disputed in the scientific mainstream, where the term "theory" does not mean a hunch, but an explanation backed by abundant observation, and where gaps in knowledge are not seen as grounds for doubt but points for future understanding.

The term theory of architecture was originally simply the accepted translation of the Latin term ratiocinatio as used by Vitruvius, a Roman architect-engineer of the 1st century ad, to differentiate intellectual from practical knowledge in architectural education; but it has come to signify the total basis for judging the merits of buildings or building projects.

See Gregory (2008a) for a discussion regarding the use of the term "theory" in science.

A skeptic can therefore come up with different theories of what we mean by the term, theories that accord with our past usage, but whose prescriptions in the novel situations diverge from one another.

But here's my long-term theory.

Many organisations can also have a short-term and long-term theory of change – the short one feeding into the long.

According to proponents of the so-called long-term theory for the dominance of sexual reproduction, sexual reproduction will replace asexual reproduction in the evolutionary development of an organism because it assures greater genetic variability, which is necessary if the species is to keep pace with its changing environment.

According to proponents of the short-term theory, however, the above argument implies that natural selection acts on groups of organisms rather than on individuals, which is contrary to the Darwinian concept of natural selection (see evolution: The concept of natural selection).