conventional theory
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconventionalandtheory
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conventional
adjective
uk/kənˈven.ʃən.əl/us/kənˈven.ʃən.əl/
traditional ...
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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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The second-order correction is absent in theconventionaltheory, too.
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In demonstrating during the 1970s the value of new policies, the consequences ofconventionaltheoryhad first to be exposed.
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I have proposed a theory of team agency which generalizes theconventionaltheoryof rational individual choice.
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However, the judicial function of commercial guilds is also emphasized by scholars who support theconventionaltheory.
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So the relationship between my proposal and theconventionaltheoryis not really that of companions in guilt.
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Nonetheless, if we put this point aside for later discussion, we can see that his work questionsconventionaltheoryby using new and reliable material.
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On the other hand, as soon as subjects are allowed to communicate, they achieve better outcomes than predicted by theconventionaltheory.
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Here we point out the following problems inconventionaltheoryin the hope that they can help the reader see its weaknesses.
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This gives the possibility of considering the fractional differential equations approximation and percolation estimates on the basis of theconventionaltheoryof long-range correlations.
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I have argued that theconventionaltheoryhas no empirical content on its own, in the absence of any auxiliary hypotheses about how individuals conceptualize their decision problems.
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The results suggest that the effects of structural shocks in the passive monetaryactive fiscal regime are substantially different fromconventionaltheoryin the active monetary-passive fiscal regime.
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Conventionaltheorydoes not tell us why we want to know that others are happy, or why we allow ourselves to be moved when they are not.
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This stability of dispositions provides a mechanism, absent from theconventionaltheoryof trustworthiness as reputation, by which trust can propagate from one domain to another.
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Instead, we might look at how economists already deal with analogues of the existence and objectives problems when applying theconventionaltheoryof rational individual choice.
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I like to believe theconventionaltheorythat a high police detection rate will have an effect in deterring crime.
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Criticisms of theconventionaltheoryare usually associated with theories of endogenous money.
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Conventionaltheoryargues that the follow-on is almost always enforced.
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Such a formalism includes theconventionaltheoryof generalized functions (without their product) as a special case.
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Advocates of the behavioral approach also challenged the omission of the element of uncertainty from theconventionaltheory.
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When heat was also applied to the unheated arm,conventionaltheorypredicted that the circulatory flow would slow or stop completely.
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The chromothripsis phenomenon opposes theconventionaltheorythat cancer is the gradual acquisition of genomic rearrangements and somatic mutations over time.
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Theconventionaltheoryof monopoly power in economic life maintains that the monopolist will attempt to restrict supply in order to maintain price above its competitive level.
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