Definition of theory

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Theory (n.) The philosophical explanation of phenomena, either physical or moral; as, Lavoisier's theory of combustion; Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments..

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Pantisocratist :: Pantisocratist (n.) One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.
Practice :: Practice (n.) Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
Theorist :: Theorist (n.) One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist.
Aretaics :: Aretaics (n.) The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics.
Ray :: Ray (n.) Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen..
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis..
Plutonism :: Plutonism (n.) The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory..
Catastrophist :: Catastrophist (n.) One who holds the theory or catastrophism.
Theorize :: Theorize (v. i.) To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.
Lamarckism :: Lamarckism (n.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs..
#NAME? :: -ism () A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism..
Seminist :: Seminist (n.) A believer in the old theory that the newly created being is formed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.
Hylism :: Hylism (n.) A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil.
Vulcanic :: Vulcanic (a.) Of or pertaining to volcanoes; specifically, relating to the geological theory of the Vulcanists, or Plutonists..
Stimulism :: Stimulism (n.) The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation..
Construct :: Construct (v. t.) To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics..
Epigenetic :: Epigenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.
Theoretical :: Theoretical (a.) Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences..
Theoric :: Theoric (n.) Speculation; theory.
Rationalist :: Rationalist (n.) One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist..
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