Sentences with phrase «outmoded theories»

When it does, there could be twice as many diagnoses for girls, and benefits for the entire field, as scientists refine or discard outmoded theories.

For generations, arson inspectors have used outmoded theories to help indict and incarcerate many suspects.

The knowledge of faith, rather than relying on the outmoded theories of knowledge where the mind merely represents external objects, is participatory; the act of contemplating the things of God partakes in God's own Trinitarian activity.

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The theory of knowledge on which it was based is outmoded.

Yet the process alternative resembles materialistic theories of mind, and represents what they might become if they abandoned the now - outmoded Cartesian / Newtonian concept of matter.

Today, more than three hundred years after John Locke spelled out his theory that the greatest good is served by each person following his or her own best interests, some economists and politicians are still trying to bend and stretch this outmoded «explanation» of life to fit social realities that say it just doesn't meet human needs today.

Cinephiles were less and less receptive to their films, judging them to be austere if not masochistic, while academic interest in Straub / Huillet's practice — deemed to be archetypal of an outmoded «political modernist» paradigm of film theory — similarly waned.