Example sentences of "theories because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intended contrast is between repudiating science because we can not understand how to bring it into harmony with an antecedently given substantive conception of reality , and rejecting our most general scientific theories because they are constantly surprised by experience . |
| 2 | Individualists and holists can not agree about the reducibility of social theories because they approach the problem from different directions , and at the same time fail to recognise that this is so . |
| 3 | Sometimes , however , there is a problem in distinguishing ‘ learning ’ theories because they can easily become all-embracing . |
| 4 | They should be thought of as models rather than theories because they are orientated to action and to practice . |
| 5 | However , the falsificationist maintains that some theories , while they may superficially appear to have the characteristics of good scientific theories , are in fact only posing as scientific theories because they are not falsifiable and should be rejected . |
| 6 | But its conception of the international economy is different from that of world-system theories because it sees it as created and conditioned by the rivalry between different nation-states . |
| 7 | The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory . |
| 8 | So erm y'know there 's a sense in which some people feel rather suspicious of this sort o y'know the family dynamics type theories because it draws attention away from the responsibility of the people who actually do the abuse . |