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‘P’. A symbol used by scholars who follow the ‘documentary hypothesis’ of the origin of the
Pentateuch to denote the ‘Priestly source’. It is marked by a preponderance of ritual and ceremonial enactments over narrative and the avoidance of anthropomorphic ideas of God.
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'Theories' in everyday situations
Magazine article from: et Cetera; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...speakable levels, and which is not a theory. Theories are the rational means for a rational...And let's call those unstated 'theories' "organismal theories." If we generalize these notions of theory, then the ways we 'think' about...
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'Theories' in everyday situations.
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...speakable levels, and which is not a theory. Theories are the rational means for a rational...And let's call those unstated 'theories' "organismal theories." If we generalize these notions of theory, then the ways we 'think' about...
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Mixed Theories of Punishment and Mixed Offenders: Some Unresolved Tensions
Magazine article from: The Southern Journal of Philosophy; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...create are explored in the mixed theories of John Rawls, H. L. A...is argued that none of these theories successfully resolve the tensions...combining them into a single mixed theory. There are, after all, powerful...reasons for thinking that both theories offer important insights into...
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Theory and Practice: Nomos XXXVII.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...famous essay on the utility of theory. Part Two, "The Value of Pure Theory," consists of Francis Kamm...high" and "low" ethical theories as both intrinsically worthwhile...personal" points of view in moral theory; and Jeremy Waldron's brief...
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Theories of Urban Politics.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...difficulties of theory-building, other...utility of some theories is noted by several...cited: many of the theories lack a viable methodology...growth machine theory, when transported...especially flawed theories in urban politics...difficulties endemic to theory-building efforts...
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Theory, reality, and performativity in markets.(Focus on Economic Sociology)
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...neoclassical market theory, and I discuss to which extent economic theories are used as blueprints...the social world. Theories imply, by necessity, abstraction; a theory that is of the same...Further, economic theories aim at giving an...
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Popular theories--unpopular research. (Editorial).(Editorial)
Magazine article from: School Science and Mathematics; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...can state principles of the theory but do not make any effort...educational problems. The theory's attractiveness appears...all borrow terms from formal theories to express informal ideas...sideways reference to chaos theory. But it is quite another thing...
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Ideal theory in theory and practice.(Report)
Magazine article from: Social Theory and Practice; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...cannot develop nonideal theory without first working out ideal theory. Post-Rawlsian theories of justice have broadly...between ideal and nonideal theory, and on clarifying what...them good rather than bad theories. 2. Normative Social...
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IS DESIGN THEORY POSSIBLE?
Magazine article from: JITTA : Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...same sense as a theory of chemistry is. Socio-psychological theories of what designers do are not design theories. Knowledge of how...cannot be reduced to theory, for reasons that...influence. These theories are generally part...But a supporting theory may investigate...
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Theory Use in Practice: A National Survey of Therapists Who Use the Model of Human Occupation
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...occupational therapy theory. Law and McColl (1989...level of knowledge about theories among occupational therapists...occupational therapy theories supporting their actions...difficulty articulating the theories they used. Overall...practitioners' knowledge of theory is modest. Factors ...
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Lay Theories
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...in their everyday lives. Lay theories are often captured by proverbs...new tricks ” (entity theory), and “ it ’...leaf ” (incremental theory). Such lay theories often reflect the core beliefs...
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Theories of Biological Aging: Programmed Aging
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
THEORIES OF BIOLOGICAL AGING...to develop a unified theory of biological aging...Harman in his oxidative theory of aging. The genetic theory emphasizes the importance...aging. The various aging theories are no longer viewed...
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Einstein: Theory of Relativity.
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Einstein: Theory of Relativity. Einstein first wrote on...mechanics that had most fascinated him was the theory of light as a wave motion in a quasi...discussion of the light ether was the electron theory. The electron theory had not been taught...
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Theory
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...Still, construing theory broadly as any attempt...phenomena, it is clear that theories play a central role in...looser connection between theory, on the one hand, and...even relatively modest theories can be illuminating. To the extent that a theory allows one to make predictions...
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Earth, Theories of the
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
EARTH, THEORIES OF THE EARTH, THEORIES OF THE. Hundreds of works in search of "the theory of the Earth" were published for...Cartesian aspects of Burnet's theory. Theories such as The Anatomy of the Earth...
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