general theory
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneralandtheory
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general
adjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as ...
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theory
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈθɪə.ri/us/ˈθɪr.i/
a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion ...
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Ageneraltheoryis needed.
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The vision of ageneraltheoryhas been misleading.
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This contains methodology, laboratory analysis, and somegeneraltheory.
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Fluctuating resources in plant communities: ageneraltheoryof invasibility.
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Ageneraltheoryof language acquisition must ultimately accommodate the facts about bilingual/multilingual acquisition.
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Thus, it will be hard, if not impossible, to develop ageneraltheoryof sudden stops.
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Only if one thinks he is committed to ageneraltheoryabout magic.
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The final chapter of the book goes back to interpretation andgeneraltheory.
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Recent evidence for neural mechanisms in vision leading to ageneraltheoryof sensory acuity.
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Interesting results abound which cannot yet be fitted into ageneraltheory.
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Ageneraltheoryof confluent rewriting systems for logic programming and its applications.
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Thegeneraltheoryof relativity goes one step further along this path.
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The micro tools that worked ingeneraltheoryalso worked in trade theory.
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Thegeneraltheoryis simple to state in terms of motor control systems.
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Anyone who proposed ageneraltheoryof the biosphere would probably find only lukewarm interest.
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Thegeneraltheorypresented in this paper is needed to discuss all of these effects.
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It was a short step from this to ageneraltheory.
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Review article : looking forward to ageneraltheoryon population aging.
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An application of thegeneraltheoryis presented for the two-fluid model of plasmas.
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This leads to a moregeneraltheory, with an easier formulation of time-outs.
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The approach provides the foundation for a moregeneraltheoryof public law.
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And the framework, in turn, connotes ageneraltheoryof international relations.
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Students of delegation will jump at the comparative application and thegeneraltheory.
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