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Theory of descriptions — The theory of descriptions is one of the philosopher Bertrand Russell s most significant contributions to the philosophy of language. It is also termed Russell s Theory of Descriptions (often abbreviated as RTD ). In short, Russell argued that… … Wikipedia
Theory — The word theory has many distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion.In science a theory is a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena,… … Wikipedia
Theory of Colours — Infobox Book name = Theory of Colours title orig = Zur Farbenlehre translator = Charles Eastlake [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi m0422/is 2 82/ai 64573524/pg 6] image caption = Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that… … Wikipedia
Theory of relativity — This article is about the scientific concept. For philosophical or sociological theories about relativity, see Relativism. For the silent film, see The Einstein Theory of Relativity. Two dimensional projection of a three dimensional analogy of… … Wikipedia
Theory of Others — The theory of others is the discipline of rhetorical studies and its “bias towards white men of Western tradition.” It was presented by Dr. Raka Shome. The theory of others proposes that neocolonialism, racism, and all manner of stereotype are… … Wikipedia
Descriptivist theory of names — is a view of the nature of the meaning and reference of proper names generally attributed to Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. The theory consists essentially in the idea that the meanings (semantic contents) of names are identical to the… … Wikipedia
Mediated reference theory — The mediated reference theory is a semantic theory that posits that words refer to something in the external world, but insists that there is more to the meaning of a name than simply the object to which it refers. It thus stands opposed to the… … Wikipedia
Causal theory of reference — A causal theory of reference is any of a family of views about how terms acquire specific referents. Such theories have been used to describe reference in regard to all sorts of reference bearing terms, particularly logically proper names and… … Wikipedia
String theory — This article is about the branch of theoretical physics. For other uses, see String theory (disambiguation). String theory … Wikipedia
Chaos theory — This article is about chaos theory in Mathematics. For other uses of Chaos theory, see Chaos Theory (disambiguation). For other uses of Chaos, see Chaos (disambiguation). A plot of the Lorenz attractor for values r = 28, σ = 10, b = 8/3 … Wikipedia