Theory synonyms
thē'ə-rē, thîr'ē
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A set of rules or principles dealing with a specific area of a legal system:
Plural form of principle
Plural form of condition.
Plural form of postulate
The definition of a plan is a document, program or diagram that shows how to proceed.
A procedure or timed plan
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The act of founding, especially the establishment of an institution with provisions for future maintenance.
discourse (related)
The act of making preparations for a possible or future event or situation:
formularization
The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
The prevailing social order; the establishment. Used with the :
The process of precisely formulating a statement, as a code of laws.
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The definition of a scheme is a plot or a plan to achieve some action.
Orderly arrangement of parts or steps to accomplish an end:
The act of approaching:
Expectation for the future:
A statement of official government policy, especially in foreign affairs and military strategy.
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A doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a religion.
The fundamental reasons for something; the basis:
The definition of cosmology is a science of how the universe started and how it is structured.
Weltanschauung (German)
Principles
A system of thought based on or involving such study:
(General) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
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A thought or conjecture
opinion (related)
A judgment based on special knowledge and given by an expert:
Faith, esp. religious faith
The interpretation, meaning, or sense given in explaining
A rule or method for doing something, esp. when conventional and used or repeated without thought
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A judgment or estimate formed by guessing; conjecture; surmise
The definition of a hunch is a feeling or a premonition about something, or an arched back while sitting or standing.
A set of doctrines or beliefs that are shared by the members of a social group or that form the basis of a political, economic, or other system.
A people or tribe, specif., a group of North American Indians, sometimes one belonging to a confederation
A rule or law concerning the functioning of natural phenomena or mechanical processes:
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
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(Logic) a syntactically correct expression that is deducible from the given axioms of a deductive system
(Logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
fact (antonym)
Something which has become real.
proof (antonym)
(Countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
certainty (antonym)
Something that is clearly established or assured:
Something postulated; assumption or axiom
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The act of postulating or something postulated
The act of presupposing.
Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture
One that is capable of being chosen or of being made real:
thitherward
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(--- Logic) Either of the two propositions of a syllogism from which the conclusion is drawn
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- Law implies an exact formulation of the principle operating in a sequence of events in nature, observed to occur with unvarying uniformity under the same conditions the law of the conservation of energy
- Hypothesis refers to an explanation that is tentatively inferred, often as a basis for further experimentation, but that is not fully supported by evidence the nebular hypothesis
- Theory , in scientific or technical use, refers to a general principle or set of principles, based on considerable evidence, formulated to explain the operation of certain phenomena the theory of evolution, though it is often loosely used to mean a mere conjecture, guess, or hypothesis
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