Sentence examples for theory comparison from inspiring English sources
Figure 8 Determination of system loss by theory comparison.
They are followed by a brief comparison of Kuhn and Feyerabend's views on incommensurability, especially its relation to theory comparison.
This sort of difficulty in theory comparison is an instance of what Kuhn and Feyerabend called 'incommensurability'. Theories are incommensurable when they share no common measure.
While the analysis of the current data set provides preliminary evidence for this theory, comparison to non-accident reports will be required for validation.
This makes room for rational disagreement in theory comparison, as scientists may apply different values (such as scope, simplicity, fruitfulness, accuracy) in evaluating and comparing particular theories, so that theory choice is not unequivocally determined throughout the scientific community.
Even so, it is clear that at the very least Kuhn's incommensurability thesis would make theory comparison rather more difficult than had commonly been supposed, and in some cases impossible.
In the last section we saw some of the difficulty inherent in experiment-theory comparison.
Langstroth (1932) reviewed the situation and commented on the difficulty of experiment-theory comparison when one deals with real, as opposed to ideal, experiments.
In a review of the literature on wellbeing in sociological and psychological journals, George (2010) identified five theoretical approaches in gerontological research: discrepancy theories; social comparison theory; strategic investment of resources (such as selective optimisation theory; Baltes and Carstensen 2003); social stratification of wellbeing; and a social indicators perspective.
Examples of such theories include Social Comparison Theory (Festinger, 1954), which aims to explain how people's opinions are influenced within social groups and Cognitive Adaptation Theory (Taylor, 1983), which aims to explain how people cognitively adapt to threatening events.
Our theory allows comparison of different implementations of gates.
