Word Meaning

Meaning of "theory" and the crossword clue

- explanatory supposition
- He becomes involved in conservative premise
- Hypothesis
- Set of hypotheses
- Speculative view or idea
- There’s no street in the story, at least that’s the likely explanation
- There’s no truth in the factory being a possibility
- A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.
- An exposition of the general or abstract principles of any science; as, the theory of music.
- The science, as distinguished from the art; as, the theory and practice of medicine.
- The philosophical explanation of phenomena, either physical or moral; as, Lavoisier's theory of combustion; Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments.