scientific theory
collocation in Englishmeaningsofscientificandtheory
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scientific
adjective
uk/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/us/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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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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(Definition ofscientificandtheoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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While data cannot falsifyscientifictheory, data, however, unlikescientifictheory, can falsify metaphysics.
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The algorithmic aesthetics is based onscientifictheory.
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The building ofscientifictheoryprovides an adult example.
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The comparison is betweenscientifictheoryand social structure.
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Emergence and process became central to naturalscientifictheory.
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To outweigh this combination ofscientifictheoryand everyday usage, powerful countervailing considerations would be needed.
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The same goes for the precise values of the probabilities of anyscientifictheory.
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His public image here became embedded in a representation of thescientifictheoryhe was presenting.
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Ultimately, however, truth is the tribunal to whichscientifictheorymust answer.
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Only in retrospect do we think that some key experiment destroyed a weakscientifictheory.
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Fortunately, theirscientifictheoryis separable from their philosophy, and is methodologically consistent with realism.
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Simple socialscientifictheoryhas been used to identify the main issues and significant relationships from these unreliable images.
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Since patterns are derived empirically from observations, they differ fromscientifictheory, which derives solutions starting from first principles.
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His basic argument is that empirical evidence cannot verify ascientifictheory; it can only falsify or disprove it.
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From this perspective, any formalisation of a language can be regarded as ascientifictheoryabout that language.
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The next step in constructing a suitablyscientifictheoryof psychotherapy is to devise a way of testing it.
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As we have seen, he attempts to harmonize them, so as to anchor his similes in firmscientifictheory.
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These now classic experiments provided an empirical base for the primordial soup model, displacing panspermia in mainstreamscientifictheory.
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A persistent theme in this journal has been measurement, quantitative evaluation and the relationship between engineering practice andscientifictheory.
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Anyscientifictheorymust do this type of thing; anyscientifictheorymust relegate much of the causal structure of the world to the status of background or detail.
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Here we are dealing withscientifictheory.
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Both ascientifictheoryand an economic interest underlie these.
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That is one seriousscientifictheorynow naturally being considered.
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Cartesian dualism is a minority position in contemporary philosophy, at least as ascientifictheoryof mind, and for very good reason.
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Ascientifictheoryof brain/language relations, however, tries to state precise, yet abstract generalizations over a broad range of carefully selected results.
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