See Gunpowder, and the General Theory of Fire-Works.
The French civil code made the idea of Aquilian culpa into a general theory of delictal liability, saying, "Every act of man which causes damage to another obliges him through whose fault it happened to make reparation.
It offers itself as a general theoryof the values of durable bearers of income.
We have already shown how these methods, in their turn, require the aid of general theory, but not of a general theorywhich tries to do their work.
In studying, therefore, such an apparently simple question as the effect of an act of parliament on wages in a small group of trades we want a general theory which we can use as a kind of index of the factors we have to consider.
That is, a general theory is a framework for understanding any and all instances of nursing, and may be used to describe or to project any given situation of nursing.
Nursing as caring: An overview of a general theory of nursing.
The concept of a general theory is particularly useful in the context of levels of theory.
The second would try to establish the probable truth of a general theory; for example:-- A college education is a profitable investment.
A general theory is established by showing that for all known particular cases it will offer an acceptable explanation.
It results that there is no warrant, in general theory, for claiming that the work of highly paid persons (more particularly that of highly paid business men) is of greater substantial use to the community than that of the less highly paid.
Mr. Clark's general theory of production does not differ substantially from that commonly professed by the marginal-utility school.
The details of individual economic conduct and its consequences are of interest to such a general theory chiefly as they further or disturb the beneficent "natural" course.
The details of economic life are construed, for purposes of general theory, in terms of their subservience to the aims imputed to the collective life process.
Side-note: Distinction to be made between a general theory--and the particular application of it made by the theorist to his own tastes and circumstances.
It is therefore necessary to connect this great mineral principle, subterraneous fire or heat, with the other operations of the world, in forming a general theory.
But is it necessary, that every particular appearance, among minerals, should be thus explained in a general theory of the earth?
Once the philosophical stage is reached, its methods and results are connected and enlarged by continued research after facts, controlled and directed by the conclusions of general theory.
Thomson only obtained a copy of Green's paper in January 1845, and probably worked out his solutions quite independently of any ideas derived from Green's general theory.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general theory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
