consistent theory

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consistent
adjective
uk
/kənˈsɪs.tənt/us
/kənˈsɪs.tənt/
always behaving or happening in a similar, especially ...
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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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Each system completed itself as a closed,consistenttheory.
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A simpler and moreconsistenttheoryis developed here: that the hafgerdingar are an optical phenomenon, specifically, a superior mirage.
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I cannot think that is a veryconsistenttheory.
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This may be motivated by faith, or by a purely philosophical interest in designing aconsistenttheorythat continues a long and honourable tradition.
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I do not want to develop that now, but that has been myconsistenttheory.
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Aconsistenttheoryis sometimes defined to be a syntacticallyconsistenttheory, and sometimes defined to be a satisfiable theory.
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When there are conflicts between the current knowledge and the new knowledge, a higher priority is put on the new one to produce aconsistenttheoryas a whole.
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Of the topological classes of such maps of the plane, branched covering maps are perhaps the most likely choice for attempts to develop aconsistenttheoryof their dynamics.
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It is to its credit that an impressive volume of reports have been published, and a body ofconsistenttheorywhich places emphasis on productivity.
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Fortunately, aconsistenttheoryof quantum electrodynamics removes the need for infinitesimal point charges altogether.
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Note that a conservative extension of aconsistenttheoryis consistent.
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This theory united all previously unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism, and optics into aconsistenttheory.
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To produce aconsistenttheory, it is necessary to introduce higher order vertices, called contact terms, to cancel the divergences.
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Theoretical physicists have not yet formulated a widely accepted,consistenttheorythat combines general relativity and quantum mechanics.
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Despite major efforts, no complete andconsistenttheoryof quantum gravity is currently known, even though a number of promising candidates exist.
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Again, it is unclear if this is a decisive critique for the criteria of coherency andconsistenttheoryare exactly what is under question.
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Without aconsistenttheory, there can be no meaningful statement about the physical conditions associated with the universe before this point.
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His second incompleteness theorem stated that anyconsistenttheorypowerful enough to encode addition and multiplication of integers can not prove its own consistency.
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Some believed that there is only oneconsistenttheorywhich requires infinitely many particle species and whose form can be found by consistency alone.
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The double dispersion relations were a central tool in the bootstrap program which sought to formulate aconsistenttheoryof infinitely many particle types of increasing spin.
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