In other words, Metchnikoff's theory conceived immunity as a subset of inflammatory responses to internal and external threats to the host organism and thus was an attempt to account for how organismic identity is established (Tauber 2003).
Attachment theory, conceived by John Bowlby in an evolutionary framework, has proposed that the human infant is born with a set of behavioural mechanisms selected for increasing the chances of survival.
Usually realistic axiomatizations and other reconstructions of actual scientific theories are possible only in terms of set theoretical and other strong mathematical conceptualizations (theories conceived of as "set-theoretical predicates").
There is still the substantive question of which of two theories conceived as rivals is true.
Many approaches in the tradition of Feigl (1967) and Smart (1963), called "identity theories", conceive mental and material states as essentially identical "central states", yet considered from different perspectives.
But because legal theories conceived of by their authors as positivist are, by and large, dominant in the milieux of those likely to be reading this entry, it seems appropriate to refer to those theories along the way, in the hope of overcoming misunderstandings that (while stimulating certain clarifications and improvements of natural law theorizing) have generated some needless debate.
Rational choice theory conceives of choices as rational if they are (correctly) derived from a complete and transitive preference ordering over the choice alternatives.
In current particle physics, string theory conceives of force-points as closed vibrating loops that whip their exteriors into dimensional shape.
Systems theory conceives of learning organizations as comprising inter-dependent building blocks at the individual, group, organizational, and global level.
In the grounded theory paradigm, the theory is conceived as a collection of well-developed concepts linked by linking sentences which together constitute an integrated framework that can be used to explain or predict phenomena [ 22].
