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Synonyms for theory:


noun hypothesis, belief

approach
argument
assumption
code
concept
doctrine
idea
ideology
method
philosophy
plan
position
premise
proposal
provision
rationale
scheme
speculation
suspicion
system
thesis
understanding
base
basis
codification
conditions
conjecture
dogma
feeling
foundation
grounds
guess
guesswork
hunch
impression
outlook
postulate
presentiment
presumption
shot
stab
supposal
supposition
surmise
theorem
formularization
suppose
systemization

Examples of uses:

I wish to see regular reports on the progress of this theory. - theory?
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Maybe it's just a theory, an idea or a theory is all we can arrive at,
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Then the Rampion theory is no longer a theory, it's a fact.
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Yes. Well, that's just a theory, and a theory's just a bunch of words set front to back.
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When you've explained the theory of value and the classical theory of economics.
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It's an interesting theory, and I can see where your research might seem to support that. But your theory kind of fell apart in the field.
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Without that and Maxwell's field theory there'd never be a theory of relativity.
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We think there's reason to believe the theory but we clearly present it as a theory only.
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Well, that's just a theory, and a theory's just a bunch of words set front to back.
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The bottom of things, of course. What Darwin did with his theory of evolution I intend to do with my theory of humanoids.
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