a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
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"theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses""true in fact and theory"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hyponym
reductionism
blastogenesis
preformation, theory of preformation
scientific theory
field theory
economic theory
atomism, atomic theory, atomist theory, atomistic theory
holism, holistic theory
structuralism, structural sociology
structuralism, structural anthropology
hypernym
part meronym