Presenting over a decade of original research, Words and Structures collects four influential papers that address the theory of words, the structure of sentences, and the relationship between the two.
Efficiency claims underlie the two leading rationales for hospital and insurance mergers: that the Affordable Care Act encourages consolidation in both sectors, and that each side has to get bigger to match the increasing size of the other -- the "Sumo wrestler theory," in the words of healthcare and antitrust expert Thomas L. Greaney of Saint Louis University.
This was the theory of word recognition — the idea that children learn words by memorizing them.
Cedraschi et al [ 7] demonstrated the presence of a discrepancy between the theory and practice of the word 'chronic' and the possible misunderstandings that the word could produce.
He developed a radically empiricist theory of the meaning of words, which supported his utilitarianism and his legal theory.
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had been directed against the view that a word's meaning is a thing for which it stands as a name (which is one of the misconceptions that had distorted Bentham's theory of the meaning of words).
For example, student responses showed a blurring of the distinctions between scientific hypotheses and theories, possibly conflating the vernacular use of the word "theory" with their understanding of hypotheses.
Does anybody have time to tell me how many are about love? 12.16pm GMT Some Competing Theories on the Use of the Word Love (or is it really about sex?) Below the line a few theories about the words and sentiments of love are emerging.
Scientific theories are vastly different from the layman's colloquial use of the word theory.
In the terminology of the new theory, the word "proposition" was used not for an objective metaphysical complex, but simply for an interpreted declarative sentence, an item of language.
A stereotype is an oversimplified theory of a word's extension: the stereotype associated with 'tiger' describes tigers as cat-like, striped, carnivorous, fierce, living in the jungle, etc. Stereotypes are not meanings, as they do not determine reference in the right way: there are albino tigers and tigers that live in zoos.
