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The word you are looking for is "hypothetical." It refers to something that is assumed or imagined but may not be true or real in practice.
The opposite of theory is typically practice. While theory refers to a set of principles or ideas used to explain something, practice involves the actual application or implementation of those principles.
"Teorya" is a Filipino term that translates to "theory" in English. It refers to a systematic explanation or interpretation of a phenomenon or concept based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning.
Antonyms of theory include fact, reality, evidence, and truth.
The image theory of meaning suggests that words and thoughts are understood by mentally associating them with mental images or sensory experiences. This theory posits that our understanding of language is based on our ability to form mental pictures or representations of the words and concepts being communicated.
The word for not being able to explain a theory is "incomprehensible."
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Theory derives from the Greek theoréo meaning to look at, to observe.
Evolution is a fact. The theory of evolution by natural selection is what you are trying to talk about. When someone says " evolution is just a theory " they are using the vulgar, common sense of the word theory. They mean guess, hunch and the like. The theory of evolution by natural selection is in the scientific sense of the word theory, which means a body of explanatory work supported by myriad lines of converging evidence that has been tested rigouusly and replicated often. Any good dictionary uses this scientific meaning of theory as the primary meaning of the word.
Show them a good dictionary. The scientific meaning is usually the primary meaning given in good dictionaries for the word theory. Theory is the highest concept in science as it is a explanatory frame work supported by much evidence and tested hypothesis for a phenomenon observed in nature. ( a fact/law ) You can generate testable hypothesis from theories. Theory encompasses law and fact and explains much of law and fact. A theory is falsifiable.
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The opposite of theory is typically practice. While theory refers to a set of principles or ideas used to explain something, practice involves the actual application or implementation of those principles.
It is the most consistent, and perhaps the best, theory put forward to explain the fact of evolution.
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The vulgar meaning of theory is that one " guesses ", or just has an idea over a cup of coffee. The scientific meaning, which is the primary meaning in any good dictionary, is that theory is basically an explanation of phenomenon,( observation, fact, law, ) and this is logically consistent internally and supported by many lines of converging evidence. Simply put, the theory of evolution by natural selection is the cornerstone of biology. Biology would be an exercise in natural history " stamp collecting " is not for the theory of evolution by natural selection explaining so much ( not everything ) about evolution.
Generally ecomomy means a theory that deals with 'capital'
The main theory about this taboo word is that it stems from several places. The middle dutch word fokken (meaning to thrust, to copulate) or the Norwegian word fukka (meaning also to copulate) and the swedish word focka (meaning to strike, thrust or copulate)