Theory
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- An unproven conjecture.
- I have a theory about who broke into the school last night, but I have no proof to back it up.
- An expectation of what should happen, barring unforeseen circumstances.
- So we’ll be there in three hours? — That’s the theory.
- Template:Countable Template:Science A coherent statement or set of statements that attempts to explain observed phenomena.
- There is now a well-developed theory of electrical charge.
- A logical structure that enables one to deduce the possible results of every experiment that falls within its purview.
- The theory of relativity was proposed by Einstein.
- A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
- Knot theory classifies the mappings of a circle into 3-space.
- A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them.
- A theory is consistent if it has a model.
List of theorists: Aristotle - Gaston Bachelard - Mikhail Bakhtin - Georges Bataille - Roland Barthes - Charles Baudelaire - Simone de Beauvoir - Walter Benjamin - Pierre Bourdieu - Gilles Deleuze - Guy Debord - Denis Diderot - Umberto Eco - Kodwo Eshun - Michel Foucault - Sigmund Freud - Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Gershon Legman - Karl Marx - Nietzsche - Camille Paglia - Marquis de Sade - Peter Sloterdijk - Susan Sontag - Spinoza - David Toop - Parker Tyler - Paul Virilio - Ken Wilber - Raymond Williams - Slavoj Žižek
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A - Kathy Acker - Guillaume Apollinaire - Theodor Adorno - Louis Althusser - Aristotle - Rudolf Arnheim - B - Gaston Bachelard - Mikhail Bakhtin - Georges Bataille - Roland Barthes - Charles Baudelaire - Jean Baudrillard - Michel Bauwens - Simone de Beauvoir - Jeremy Bentham - Walter Benjamin - Alfred Binet - Maurice Blanchot - Iwan Bloch - Pierre Bourdieu - Jean-Pierre Bouyxou - Scott Bukatman - Judith Butler - C - Noël Carroll - Daniel Chandler - Noam Chomsky - Carol Clover - Barbara Creed - Aleister Crowley - Arthur C. Danto - Gilles Deleuze - Charles Darwin - Guy Debord - Jacques Derrida - Bram Dijkstra - Mark Dery - René Descartes - Denis Diderot - Emile Durkheim - E - Umberto Eco - Havelock Ellis - August Endell - Kodwo Eshun - F - Leslie Fiedler - Michel Foucault - Sigmund Freud - Northrop Frye - G - Hal Foster - Antonio Gramsci - Clement Greenberg - Germaine Greer - Elizabeth Grosz - H - Jurgen Habermas - Stuart Hall - Dick Hebdige - Friedrich Hegel - Martin Heidegger - Magnus Hirschfeld - Max Horkheimer - David Hume - I - Luce Irigaray - J - Katrien Jacobs - Frederic Jameson - Charles Jencks - K - Immanuel Kant - Linda Kauffman - Alfred Charles Kinsey - Siegfried Kracauer - Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Julia Kristeva - L - Henri Lefèbvre - Gershon Legman - Jacques Lacan - Jean-François Lyotard - M - Lev Manovich - Greil Marcus - Herbert Marcuse - Karl Marx - Marshall McLuhan - Laura Mulvey - Henri Michaux - N - Nietzsche - P - Camille Paglia - Morse Peckham - Sadie Plant - Plato - Karl Popper - Neil Postman - R - Andrew Ross - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - John Ruskin - S - Marquis de Sade - Sartre - Arthur Schopenhauer - Steven Shaviro - Susan Sontag - Spinoza - Robert Stam - Thomas Swiss - T - David Toop - Parker Tyler - E. B. Tylor - V - Paul Virilio - Giambattista Vico - Voltaire - W - Ken Wilber - Linda Williams - Raymond Williams - Mary Wollstonecraft - Z - Slavoj Žižek
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