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A THEORY OF THEORIES [PDF]

open access: possible, 1969
Abstract : The aim of the document is to set out a bookkeeping procedure by which a scientist (using the term flexibly) may compare the conclusions of a theory with facts obtained by reduction of observational data with the aim of assessing the hypothesis on which the theory is based.
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More theory, in theory

Food Policy, 1982
Abstract An important aspect of the milk and dairy industry in the European Community is the reaction of milk producers to milk prices. In theory farmers behave like the economic man of basic economic textbooks. In practice, farmers behave quite differently, ie they increase their production when prices fall.
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Theories, theory and Theory

1980
The notion of “theory” probably has a more uncertain meaning in the social sciences and sociology in particular than in other disciplines. As far back as the early 1950s, in a passage in Social Theory and Social Structure, R. K. Merton2 pointed out that the word theory was being used by sociologists in seven different ways, only one of which was ...
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The Analyst’s “Use” of Theory or Theories: The Play of Theory

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2017
Two clinical vignettes demonstrate a methodological approach that guides the analyst’s attention to metaphors and surfaces that are the focus of different theories. Clinically, the use of different theories expands the metaphorical language with which the analyst tries to make contact with the patient’s unconscious life.
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Theory, post-theory, and aetonormative theory

Neohelicon, 2009
Heterology, or discourse on the Other, encompasses a number of theories dealing with unequal power positions in real life as well as in literature. While feminist theory has made us aware of male authors creating women characters as the Other, and while postcolonial theory reveals alterity in the images of ethnicity, a heterological approach to ...
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Literary theory, theory, and post-theory

Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 2010
By tracing the development of literary studies in the 20th century, this article distinguishes “Theory of Literature” (or “Literary Theory”), “Theory” and “Post-theory” by their distinctive attributions in varied historical and cultural contexts, and then further demonstrates their theoretical paradigms, namely, the modern paradigm of formalism, the ...
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Ergodic Theory and Diffusion Theory

1965
These theories constitute fascinating fields of application of the analytical theory of semi-groups. Mathematically speaking, the ergodic theory is concerned with the “time average” \(\mathop {\lim }\limits_{t \uparrow \infty } {t^{ - 1}}\int\limits_0^t {{T_s}} ds\) of a semigroup T t , and the diffusion theory is concerned with the investigation of a ...
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Conflict Theory / Trauma Theory

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2005
There has been a tendency in psychoanalysis to view the effects of trauma, and our ways of working with it, as something separate from our understanding and techniques of working with intrapsychic conflict. While appreciating certain differences, the author explores, primarily via clinical examples, how an integrated perspective may be most helpful to ...
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14Theory on Theory

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 2017
Key debates in the domain of ‘Theory on Theory’ have this year focused upon the legacies of the theorists grouped together under the name ‘poststructuralism’, often drawing on material made available in recent decades by Barthes, Foucault and Deleuze which adds new facets to critical understanding of their work.
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The Theory of Everything

This document presents a comprehensive thesis on a Theory of Everything (ToE) which unifies all fundamental forces and particles within a single theoretical framework. Integrating advanced theoretical concepts from quantum field theory, general relativity, supersymmetry, string theory, and cosmology, this thesis outlines a proposed Lagrangian ...
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