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theory
  1. (obsolete) Mental conception; reflection, consideration. [16th-18th c.]
  2. (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc. [from 17th c.]
  3. (uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice. [from 17th c.]
  4. (mathematics) A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs. [from 18th c.]
  5. A hypothesis or conjecture. [from 18th c.]
  6. (logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems).
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  8. Examples:
    1. “It is my theory that cats are conspiring against humanity by preventing humans from focusing on their work.”
      “Allow me to explain the theory behind cryptography.”
      “The author proposes that only through a knowledge of music theory can one understand the origins of modern science.”
theorem
  1. (mathematics) A mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be true. Minor theorems are often called propositions. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are an essential part of a bigger theorem's proof are called lemmas.
  2. (mathematics) A mathematical statement that is expected to be true
  3. (logic) A syntactically correct expression that is deducible from the given axioms of a deductive system.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “According to the theorem that I developed, the behavior of the substance can be predicted based on experimental data and a proposed hypothesis.”
theorisation
  1. (countable) Something theorised; a theory.
  2. (uncountable) The development of something beyond its obvious and practical scope.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Sorel thus followed the International Workingmen's Association theorisation of propaganda of the deed.”
      “Translation pedagogy is still in its infancy, and is in need of substantial theorisation.”
      “This essay explores the novels of James Kelman in relation to the theorisation of melancholia and subjectivity in the work of Judith Butler.”
theoretician
  1. someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art
  2. a theorist
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  4. Examples:
    1. “As a theoretician, I want to join a conversation among fellow chemists, in an effort to shape current thinking.”
      “It was Hamilton himself who remarked that Dawkins could accomplish as much in a verbal argument as many a theoretician could with mathematics.”
      “The German dramatist and theoretician Bertolt Brecht was wrong about many things, but not about this sort of problem.”
theorist
  1. Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The public choice theorist would be looking to judge empirically the effects of rent seeking.”
      “You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to question the administration's timing.”
      “So, basically it's time for a lazy suburban armchair political theorist to get active.”
theorematics
  1. The study of all the theorems associated with a particular subject.
theoric
  1. (obsolete) Theory, as opposed to practice. [14th-19th c.]
theoretics
  1. (sciences) The theoretical part of a science.
  2. Examples:
    1. “They mean the actual progress of the race in tangible items of daily living and not the theoretics of barren disputation.”
      “But these theoretics seem too fancy for what's actually on view.”
      “This builds on and sharpens the theoretics describing the religious milieu in which they operated.”
theorization
  1. Alternative form of theorisation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Second, we outline our advocacy for more theorization in future research on economic geographies of Asia.”
      “Intercultural issues involved in all international affairs seemed to us to be crucial for any kind of theorization of interculturality.”
      “This suggests that the next wave of theorization about neighbourhood dynamics and crime may take an economic bent.”
theoreticality
  1. The quality of being theoretical.
theoreticalness
  1. The quality of being theoretical.
theorising
theoriser
  1. Alternative form of theorizer
theorematist
  1. someone who constructs theorems
theorizing
theorizer
theoreticalities
  1. plural of theoreticality
theorisations
  1. plural of theorisation
theorematists
  1. plural of theorematist
theoreticians
  1. plural of theoretician
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This has caused many theoreticians to adopt a philosophical approach that mirrors the ideas of Plato.”
      “As a scientist, and as the leading theoretical biologist of our time, he had a healthy scepticism of theoreticians.”
      “Yes, parents are probably better people to go to for advice on parenting than childless theoreticians.”
theorizations
theorisings
theorizings
theorisers
  1. plural of theoriser
theorizers
theorists
  1. plural of theorist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Included among these critics are analytic philosophers, film aestheticians, sociologists and cultural theorists.”
      “But Eagleton, one of the most widely read theorists alive, knows all this, so what does he mean?”
      “The theorists concede to merely pointing at something which they cannot categorically argue even exists.”
theorems
  1. plural of theorem
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He worked on conic sections and produced important theorems in projective geometry.”
      “This work continues the tradition of mathematical experiment to help discover patterns, suggest conjectures, and develop new theorems.”
      “There are certainly mathematical logicians who are formalists, even in the light of the incompleteness theorems.”
theorics
  1. plural of theoric
theories
  1. plural of theory
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The three theories of monism, qualified monism and dualism were synthesized, as branches of the same religion, Hinduism.”
      “For decades the prevailing theories tell us that the roots of violence lie in deprived environments and abusive parents.”
      “Globular theories, the precursor to the cell theory, were quite popular at the beginning of the 19th century.”
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