Sentence examples for theory conception from inspiring English sources

In this paper, the focus is on theory conception and articulation to develop a conceptual framework.

For if physical objects do have categorical properties, those properties will not count as physical by the standards of the theory conception.

The third response raises questions about the distinction between the object and the theory conception of the physical and associated issues about dispositional and categorical properties (cf. Chalmers 1996, Lockwood 1992, and Stoljar 2000, 2001).

However, if this is correct, it would seem that the physical properties described by the theory conception are only a sub-class of the physical properties described by the object conception.

This analysis and development is based on the traditional scientific method of inquiry (Hempel 1965; Kuhn 1962) including three stages - theory conception and articulation, empirical testing and refinement, and theory affirmation and extension.

(b) The relation between, and the adequacy of, the theory-conception and the object-conception of the physical.

Hempel's dilemma against the theory-conception is similar to an objection that one often hears propounded against the object-conception (cf. Jackson 1998).

We saw above that potentially the class of properties defined by the theory-conception of the physical was distinct from the class of properties defined by the object-conception.

One might object that, while these remarks are perfectly true, they nevertheless don't speak to something that is right about Hempel's dilemma, namely, that for the theory-conception to be complete one needs to know what type of theory a physical theory is.

But, as he acknowledges at once, the task he has set himself for this book requires him to have what he calls "a theory or conception of racism".

Reid's is an act-based theory of conception, in contrast to the Way of Ideas' object-based theory.