This may include the use of a previously established theory.

In just about every field there are challenges to one established theory or another.

This, however, is only a hypothesis, not an established theory.

The regression hypothesis can be named as the first established theory in language loss.

If true, they have witnessed a phenomenon that, according to established theory, should be impossible.

According to the established theory upon which the designs had been based, such an eventuality was impossible.

They will also be closely linked with the final step in the research, which is that of relating the findings to established theory.

The idea became established theory only decades later with the discovery of cosmic background radiation by American scientists.

Therefore there was something greatly amiss with established theory.

"Slave" - "There is quite an established theory that we are all slaves.

In Japan, there were several activities of etiology research groups, but there has been no established theory.

The peculiarities of Ireland's past demography and its recent rapid changes challenge established theory.

This well established theory is called the cohesion-tension theory.

Science is rife with defenders of established theories.

He was an outsider with a doctorate in astronomy attacking an established theory between 'geophysicists'.

Since then, QCD has been the established theory of the strong interactions.

As in other disciplines, the initial emphasis of feminist economists was to critique the established theory, methodology, and policy approaches.

In recent years, researchers have sought to use familiar tools to validate or reject established theories, such as Clovis first.

These assumptions are in line with other established theories in political science, including the median voter theorem.

Nurses through critical thinking skills can question, evaluate, and reconstruct the nursing care process by challenging the established theory and practice.

No established theory exists that can explain the observed shape of Engel curves and their associated income elasticity values.

This is true of such established theories as special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, etc.

All that is left is some "mopping-up" exercises, filling in the holes in already established theories.

The process is imperfect and, on occasion, established theories are swept aside as new experiments or informed insight suddenly disprove current thought.

The inductive method begins by constructing a wide variety of items with little or no relation to an established theory or previous measure.