Crossword clues for theories
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Theory \The"o*ry\, n.; pl. Theories. [F. th['e]orie, L. theoria, Gr. ? a beholding, spectacle, contemplation, speculation, fr. ? a spectator, ? to see, view. See Theater.]
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A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.
Note: ``This word is employed by English writers in a very loose and improper sense. It is with them usually convertible into hypothesis, and hypothesis is commonly used as another term for conjecture. The terms theory and theoretical are properly used in opposition to the terms practice and practical. In this sense, they were exclusively employed by the ancients; and in this sense, they are almost exclusively employed by the Continental philosophers.''
--Sir W. Hamilton. An exposition of the general or abstract principles of any science; as, the theory of music.
The science, as distinguished from the art; as, the theory and practice of medicine.
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The philosophical explanation of phenomena, either physical or moral; as, Lavoisier's theory of combustion; Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments.
Atomic theory, Binary theory, etc. See under Atomic, Binary, etc.
Syn: Hypothesis, speculation.
Usage: Theory, Hypothesis. A theory is a scheme of the relations subsisting between the parts of a systematic whole; an hypothesis is a tentative conjecture respecting a cause of phenomena.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of theory English)
Usage examples of "theories".
This theory, via Schelling, would lead to much of Gestalt psychology and autopoietic theories of cognition.
These theories, instead of helping us escape from the reductionistic and objectifying flatland of instrumentalism, are simply leading the way for an expansion of its reach, tossing the net wider by making it shallower.
The theories that come out of peak experiences are almost always, to use an apt metaphor, half-baked.
A failure to grasp these different boundaries (and their very different functions) leads to what I have called the single-boundary fallacy, a fallacy that has hobbled many psychological theories and absolutely crippled most mystical/psychological theories (as we will see in subsequent chapters.
But the reason that there are no theories of repression in the exclusive Right-Hand path is that there is no consciousness in the Right-Hand dimension (no interiors), and thus there is nothing to institute the repression in the first place (there is no interior repression because there are no interiors, period).
After all, holistic theories of the "web of life" are as old as civilization itself, forming the very core of the world's great religions and wisdom traditions (as we will see).
Transpersonal theories in light of cultural relativism," Winkelman trots out all the old cultural relativist arguments against ranking any sort of consciousness achievement as higher or lower than another across cultures.
This leads inexorably to theories of communication and the evolution of societies, and this is precisely the path that Habermas has taken.
And that is especially what is so partial about the web-of-life theories: they indeed see fields within fields within fields, but they are really only surfaces within surfaces within yet still other surfacesthey see only the exterior half of reality.
Thus, I have never been satisfied with any of the panpsychical theories, because they qualify depth with particular manifestations of depth (such as sensations or feelings or intentions), and these do not exist throughout the holarchy of being, but emerge only at particular levels of depth, whereas depth itself is present from the start (or wherever there is a boundary).
Some of the theories do, indeed, attempt to take into account the insides of the universe, for they at any rate mention things like feelings and symbols and ideas.
These theories maintain that (1) each of us is an integral part of the Whole System, strands in the overall web.
In these theories, there is no reason to get rid of Nazis: they are very efficient, very functionally fitting, very expedient.
But empiricist theories themselves are actually making massive use of formal operational space, whose mechanisms, being not empirically obvious, are simply ignored (or rather, implicitly assumed even as the theory denies their existence).
It will have to work toward specific theories of free noospheric exchange, including but transcending ecological concerns.