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THEORY

By N., Sam M.S.

1. a standard or body of corresponding standards which claims to explain or foretell a multitude of interrelated phenomena. 2. within the philosophy of science, a set of logically correlated explanatory hypotheses which are stable with a body of empirical facts and which might propose more empirical unions. 3. with regard to general usage, abstract or speculative thought in contrast to practice or authenticity.

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