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	Theoretical definition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, a theoretical definition of the length of a metre is "the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second".
		The definitions of substances as various configurations of atoms are theoretical definitions, as are definitions of colors as specific wavelengths of reflected light.
		However, in areas such as philosophy and the social sciences, theoretical definitions of the same term often contradict each other depending on whose theory is being used as the basis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theoretical_definition (383 words)

	Chapter Three
		A theoretical definition of a term is a definition that attempts to formulate a theoretically adequate or scientifically useful description of the objects to which the term applies.
		Theoretical definitions go hand in hand with the acceptance of a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding the subject matter to which the defined terms pertain.
		A persuasive definition is a definition formulated and used persuasively to resolve a dispute by influencing attitudes or stirring emotions, often relying on the use of emotive language.
	puffin.creighton.edu /yuan/logic/Outline/LogicCh3.htm (1375 words)

	definition
		Circular definition presents the meaning of a term either by using the same term with the same meaning in the definiens, or by using a grammatical variation of the term.
		Definition of an expression as it occurs in a larger expression.
		Definition by Sub-class, assigns meaning to a term by naming subclasses of the class applied by the term, as in, Tree means: Maple, Oak, Pine, Ohia, Kukui, Koa, or in, Government means: Oligarchy, theocracy, dyarchy, triarchy, duumvirate, triumvirate, gerontocracy, aristocracy, democracy, etc..
	www.hawcc.hawaii.edu /danp/definition.htm (1585 words)

	Definition and Meaning
		Theoretical definitions are special cases of stipulative or precising definition, distinguished by their attempt to establish the use of this term within the context of a broader intellectual framework.
		Since the adoption of any theoretical definition commits us to the acceptance of the theory of which it is an integral part, we are rightly cautious in agreeing to it.
		Since a circular definition uses the term being defined as part of its own definition, it can't provide any useful information; either the audience already understands the meaning of the term, or it cannot understand the explanation that includes that term.
	www.philosophypages.com /lg/e05.htm (1750 words)

	JVER Volume 26 Number 1 - William G. Camp
		The theoretical frame is built on a combination of tacit (experience-based) theory and formal (literature-based) theory and serves to inform the researcher's assumptions and guide his or her questions about the research setting.
		Using that logic, a conceptual framework that does not rise to the level of a theoretical framework, at least at the level of substantive theory, is not an adequate foundation for a piece of research that is being considered for a scholarly journal or session.
		Merely citing theoretical concepts, which may or may not relate to the study at hand, is not the same thing as "formulating a theoretical framework." To formulate a theoretical framework, the writer must first identify and summarize a set of theoretical assumptions that explain the relationships among the phenomena being studied.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/JVER/v26n1/camp.html (4920 words)

	Free Speaker - LD Debate
		For example, a lexical definition of "rehabilitate" is to restore (a person) to a normal life by training.
		In other words, a theoretical definition rests on an underlying theory, and the rejection of this underlying theory will render the definition senseless or inappropriate.
		The defender of "rehabilitation" should not rejoice prematurely, for he, too, is grappling with a theoretical definition.
	www.economicthinking.org /lincolndouglas/definitions.html (1067 words)

	'57 Glossary
		Theoretical statements are not necessarily made when members of this class of terms are employed in a statement, although, as we shall see, theoretical statements necessarily employ them.
		Such terms are theoretical in that they may propose relationships among members of the earlier classes and in that they may introduce new concepts that hypothesize classes of events, states, structures, or mechanisms that have not yet been directly observed in connection with the behavioral events to which they are theoretically related.
		Theoretically, a ritualized response is one that has become specialized in the course of the evolution of the species as, most often, a social releaser.
	web.utk.edu /~wverplan/biblio27.html (18714 words)

	Appendix A: Sample Quiz and Test Questions
		For example, a theoretical definition is the definition of a term with respect to a philosophical or scientific hypothesis or, in other words, the explanation of the nature of something in accordance with a scientific account of the objects to which the term is applicable.
		A ___________ definition is a scientifically useful account of the objects referred to by the term.
		Clearly distinguish between a stipulative definition and a theoretical definition and give and example of each kind.
	philosophy.lander.edu /scireas/appenda.html (694 words)

	Computational Complexity: Defining Theory
		The field of theoretical computer science is interpreted broadly so as to include algorithms, data structures, complexity theory, distributed computation, parallel computation, VLSI, machine learning, computational biology, computational geometry, information theory, cryptography, quantum computation, computational number theory and algebra, program semantics and verification, automata theory, and the study of randomness.
		Theoretical computer science is the formal modeling and analysis of the processing and transmission of information.
		The rational for this definition is that what distinguishes TCS is not necessarily the formal and mathematical tools, but the goal of understanding what can and can not be done in principle, rather what can be implemented on machines existing today or 5 years from now.
	weblog.fortnow.com /2005/06/defining-theory.html (1631 words)

	Logical Consequence, Model-Theoretic Conceptions [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The model-theoretic characterization is a theoretical definition of logical consequence
		A model for a language L is the theoretical development of a possible interpretation of non-logical terminology of L according to which the sentences of L receive a truth-value.
		The truth definition specifies the conditions in which a formula of M is true in a structure by explaining how the semantic properties of any formula of M are determined by its construction from semantically primitive expressions (e.g., predicates, individual constants, and variables) whose semantic properties are specified directly.
	www.iep.utm.edu /l/logcon-m.htm (9582 words)

	Soviet Psychology: Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete by Evald Ilyenkov
		It goes without saying that the assimilation of the results of previous theoretical development is not a matter of simply inheriting ready-made formulas but rather a complex process of their critical reinterpretation with reference to their correspondence to facts, life, practice.
		Deduction ceases to be a means of formal derivation of definitions contained a priori in the concept, becoming a means of actual development of knowledge of facts in their movement, in their internal interaction.
		Abstract definitions of sensually given facts, that are synthesised on the path of ascent towards the concrete truth, are formed in the process of motion itself.
	www.marxists.org /archive/ilyenkov/works/abstract/abstra3c.htm (2688 words)

	Dynamical system (definition) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Time can be measured by integers, by real or complex numbers or can be a more general algebraic object, loosing the memory of its physical origin, and the ambient space may be simply a set, without the need of a smooth space-time structure defined on it.
		There are two classes of definitions for a dynamical system: one is motivated by ordinary differential equations and is geometrical in flavor; and the other is motivated by ergodic theory and is measure theoretical in flavor.
		The measure theoretical definitions assumes the existence of a measure-preserving transformation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dynamical_system_(definition) (1092 words)

	Temperature
		Schroeder's proposal for a theoretical definition of temperature is:
		The definition of temperature in terms of molecular kinetic energy, the "kinetic temperature", is commonly used in introductory treatments of thermodynamics.
		But in view of practical difficulties with that approach, temperature is often defined in terms of two other state variables, entropy S and internal energy U. Temperature is expressed as the inverse of the rate of change of entropy with internal energy, with volume V and number of particles N held constant.
	hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu /hbase/thermo/temper2.html (672 words)

	GPD Ch. 5: Two Recent Conceptions of Political Development
		Han Park's formal definition of political development is as follows: "Political development may be defined in terms of the capacity of the political system to satisfy the changing needs of the members of the society" (Park, 1984:58).
		According to the formal definition, the following would be a developmental advance: a shift from institutions that were moderately able to satisfy people's control needs, on the one hand, to institutions that were powerfully able to satisfy people's survival needs, on the other.
		The informal definition satisfies the FTR of exact specification: political development is defined directly, rather than as the consequence of some cause, the cause of some consequence, the correlate of some substitute indicator, or some broader process of which only a part is named.
	www.d.umn.edu /~schilton/Articles/GPD5.html (3127 words)

	Bechtel
		In order to provide as broad a historical and theoretical overview as possible, the texts cited represent the work of both critics and authors over the past thirty years (with the exception of Tolkien’s writings, which are older) and incorporate a variety of theoretical frameworks.
		This definition is not strictly exclusive, as the encyclopedia also includes entries for such topics as "magic realism," but most entries focus on authors and the various types and techniques of fantasy as they relate to Attebery’s definition.
		This definition is based largely on Tolkien’s formulation of "fairy story" as proposed in Tree and Leaf, two crucial elements being the necessary evocation of "wonder" through the use of the supernatural and the irreducibility of the supernatural.
	www.unbsj.ca /arts/english/jones/pages/_texts/others/Bechtel.html (3305 words)

	All formal methods treating these problems are published in this section, including rewriting techniques, abstract data ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Theoretical biologists cover all of biology, and are invading areas of philosophy, sociology and public policy.
		As one senior theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen put it: "Theoretical biology is intended to stand in the same relation to experimental biology as theoretical physics does to experimental physics.
		The theoretical biologist may polycystic fibrosis be driven to politically unpopular conclusions..
	take34.sitesled.com /gamblings-110cs.html (1722 words)

	Psychozoan: The Definition of Life
		That is, the definition should be specific enough so that different people can be counted on to apply the definition in the same way when they encounter a new "difficult" example.
		Almost immediately this definition runs into trouble, because on the one hand, there are easy examples of living things that do not or cannot reproduce; and on the other hand, there are easy examples of non-living things that do reproduce.
		Still, there is something promising about Spencer’s definition, because it focuses on the relationship between an entity and its environment; and, as we have seen, this is an area where the mouse and the candle flame differ greatly.
	baharna.com /philos/life.htm (14397 words)

	buffalopaper
		It seems rather doubtful that the third method, the method of ostensive definition, would be used for mental representations, since these are generally regarded as theoretical entities, and theoretical entities are, in principle, difficult to point to.
		The very fact that mental representations are conceived as theoretical entities, however, suggests the fourth strategy: namely, that we regard the expression 'mental representation' as being an expression that is theoretically defined.
		It is perhaps important to be clear about what I mean by a "theoretical definition" of a term, and how this might work with respect to the word 'representation'.
	shorst.web.wesleyan.edu /papers/buffalopaper.htm (4526 words)

	Formality of Language
		An advantage of the present definition is that it is more or less equivalent with the sense of "formal" as it is used in mathematics and the sciences.
		In spite of the empirical confirmations, our definition of F may seem to some degree arbitrary, just another one of these many related, but different, dimensions proposed by different authors, which all correlate to some degree with certain variations such as written vs. oral, but whose underlying motivation is debatable.
		We have elaborated the definition of deep formality by noting that formal language is an attempt to avoid ambiguity by minimizing the context-dependence and fuzziness of expressions.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /papers/Formality.html (11101 words)

	Using the Socratic Method to Define
		Lexical Definition, or the use of a term within a specific community, may have some limited use in determining meaning of ethical issues within that community, but if these terms cannot be defined in a broader sense, they must be rejected until we can define them in the universal.
		Theoretical Definition is the logical explanation of a word.
		While the listed types of definitions are all very clear in their own right, those being stipulative, lexical, précising, theoretical and persuasive definition, they all lack the somewhat profound effect that the Socratic Method has to enlighten readers, teachers and students alike.
	members.fortunecity.com /pinkfloyd5/socrates/index.htm (2214 words)

	Omega (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Definition: A theoretical measure of the execution of an algorithm, usually the time or memory needed, given the problem size n, which is usually the number of items.
		This definition is stronger than the traditional mathematical definition.
		The traditional definition is f is big omega of g if it is not little o of g.
	www.nist.gov /dads/HTML/omegaCapital.html (239 words)

	McMaster Chemistry: Bader
		The difficulty with this hypothesis was that it was not related directly to quantum mechanics, the physics which governs the motions of the nuclei and electrons that make up the atoms and the bonds.
		The theory recovers the central operational concepts of the molecular structure hypothesis, that of a functional grouping of atoms with an additive and characteristic set of properties, together with a definition of the bonds that link the atoms and impart the structure.
		Zou and R. Bader, Topological Definition of a Wigner-Seitz Cell and the Atomic Scattering Factor, Acta Cryst.
	www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca /bader (780 words)

	Gioia was one of three assistant professors judged by UIUC College of Engineering colleagues to have conducted the best ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In short, it is for all those who decided to study theoretical physics, in their own time.
		Its aim definition perspective theoretical is to understand the nature of computation and, as a consequence of this understanding, provide more efficient methodologies.
		The many ways of entering theoretical mobb deeb biology and the newness of the field make it necessary to design your own education..
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	PlanetMath: IF-logic
		To understand this idea we need first to introduce the game theoretical definition of truth for classical first-order logic.
		For classical first-order logic, this definition is equivalent to the usual Tarskian definition of truth (i.e.
		Bridge is such a game, for example, and usually real examples of such games have “players” being actually teams made up of several people.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/IFLogic.html (1321 words)

	What is an injury? -- Langley and Brenner 10 (2): 69 -- Injury Prevention
		The theoretical definition of injury is problematic since there
		definition would lead to the exclusion of many events that are
		presumably on the basis that the theoretical definition of injury
	ip.bmj.com /cgi/content/full/10/2/69 (2006 words)

	Defining Business Rules ~ What Are They Really? (Chapter 1)
		The rule for reading the model are contained in Appendix B of this document.
		The concept definitions are summarized in a Glossary (Appendix E).
		The very definition of a term is itself a business rule that describes how people think and talk about things.
	www.businessrulesgroup.org /first_paper/br01c1.htm (2161 words)

	Concept Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For the thing/concept in the example you identified, write a theoretical definition with the aim of eliminating the fallacy.
		Critique his definition of homelessness using the criteria for a good definition summarized in Pedhazar and Schmelkin.
		Using the criteria for concept building in Pedhezar and Schmelkin, critique the definitions given to key concepts in the articles by Forbes (1999) or Morse and Penrod (1999) and one article related to your research area.
	www.uic.edu /classes/chsc/chsc501/rdgs/study5.htm (234 words)

	theoretical - Ask.com Web Search
		Aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas and results among theoretical computer scientists and to stimulate cooperation between theorists and...
		I am professor in computer science in the theoretical computer science group at CSC, the school of Computer Science and Communication at KTH.
		phenomena or specific applications of a theory.The term theoretical is sometimes used to describe a result that is predicted by theory but...
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