Sentence examples for theory was incorrect from inspiring English sources

However, for the two subjects with small slots, it was 7.9 and 15.3, much less than 72, suggesting that the original theory was incorrect.

This agreement has eluded previous authors, because their numerical methods suffered from grid effects and their linear stability theory was incorrect.

I note that Sommerfeld's theory was incorrect, illustrating the point that an enabling theory need not be correct to be useful.

In both cases, the evil didn't result from the fact that the theory was incorrect per se.

Indeed one of the first clues that the phlogiston theory was incorrect was that metals, too, gain weight in rusting (when they were supposedly losing phlogiston).

The presence of mitochondria and robust oxygen consumption rates in tumor cells grown in vitro suggested to some that mitochondria are normal in tumor cells and that Warburg's central theory was incorrect (64, 81, 109).

If this venerable theory is incorrect, the four-gene families may all arise from segmental duplication.

He presents sustained empirical arguments that the Localist view of grammar associated with the Minimalist program (and Distributed Morphology in particular) is correct, and that the Globalism espoused by many forms of Optimality Theory is incorrect.

McCausland's use of the word "theory" is incorrect.

Assume for the sake of argument there is no God, and religiously based moral theory is incorrect.

One of its important roles is to test theories and to provide the basis for scientific knowledge.[1] It can also call for a new theory, either by showing that an accepted theory is incorrect, or by exhibiting a new phenomenon that is in need of explanation.