comprehensive theory
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcomprehensiveandtheory
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comprehensive
adjective
uk/ˌkɒm.prɪˈhen.sɪv/us/ˌkɑːm.prəˈhen.sɪv/
complete and including everything that ...
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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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However, no suchcomprehensivetheory, including realistic, multiple neocortical networks, is likely to be developed soon.
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Acomprehensivetheoryof human sexuality must address both levels of analysis.
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However, acomprehensivetheoryof adaptive evolution must feature development beyond a constraining force.
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Most studies are not based in acomprehensivetheoryof brain functioning.
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Still, inability to incorporate emotions in axiomatic models highlights the need for acomprehensivetheoryof functional rationality.
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Obviously, the long-term goal is acomprehensivetheoryor model which encompasses both typical and atypical development.
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Perhaps anycomprehensivetheoryabout the genre must be so general that it forfeits useful and interesting critical perspectives.
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To date, however, there is nocomprehensivetheoryof the development of antisocial behavior that is specific to females.
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This experience cannot be explained without an understanding of beliefs and their sources, so eventually the child adopts the morecomprehensivetheory.
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Thus, any developmental orcomprehensivetheoryas to the development of the clinical expression of emotion dysregulation must take all these factors into account.
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Whatever shape acomprehensivetheoryof language and gender will take, innateness, local practice, and ideology will all play significant roles.
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Bergvall 1999 argues that acomprehensivetheoryof language and gender must also include the social (speaker agency) and the ideological (more macrolevel societal prescriptions).
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After all, in order to establish whether there exists acomprehensivetheory, one needs to know what such a theory would in principle look like.
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Acomprehensivetheorywill need to explicate the interplay of lexical and constructional factors, something which no theory to date does to a satisfactory degree.
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He took the fundamental elements of each pillar's system and integrated them into one normativecomprehensivetheoryof the planned economic order.
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Some of these variables are under the control of the listener while other effects seem to persist, and acomprehensivetheorymust explain this variability adequately.
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This is an exciting field, and the future challenge for a trulycomprehensivetheoryof mantle convection is obvious given the significant differences it must explain between the planetary bodies.
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What is the point of insisting on the implementation of acomprehensivetheoryof education and not providing a penny to make that effective?
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Hiscomprehensivetheoryof tonality and metrics was first tested in the piano work "oluotobsiletmesi" (197579).
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Systematic andcomprehensivetheory/practice international teaching conventions are held yearly.
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Comprehensivetheoryand history co-requisites are required to obtain a certificate.
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This model allows also for a morecomprehensivetheoryof action.
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There is no coherent,comprehensivetheoryor practice of cognitive bias mitigation.
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