Theory - a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
According to the study, psychology offers three general propositions for understanding and intervening to increase vaccine rates. (sciencedaily.com)
Indeed all these ideas do become without meaning if the human person, the «I,» who is first of all concerned, is looked at from without, if the «I» is described as one can describe in general propositions the nature of a human being; if, as usually results, the individual man is regarded as a specimen of the genus homo. (religion-online.org)