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  2. Bow-wow theory - Wikipedia

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    A bow-wow theory (or cuckoo theory) is any of the theories by various scholars, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Gottfried Herder, on the speculative origins of human language. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to bow-wow theories, the first human languages developed from onomatopoeia , that is, imitations of natural sounds. [ 3 ]

  3. Hypothetico-deductive model - Wikipedia

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    The hypothetico-deductive approach contrasts with other research models such as the inductive approach or grounded theory. In the data percolation methodology, the hypothetico-deductive approach is included in a paradigm of pragmatism by which four types of relations between the variables can exist: descriptive, of influence, longitudinal or ...

  4. Theory-theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory-theory (or ' theory theory ') is a scientific theory relating to the human development of understanding about the outside world. [1] This theory asserts that individuals hold a basic or 'naïve' theory of psychology (" folk psychology ") to infer the mental states of others, [ 1 ] such as their beliefs, desires or emotions.

  5. Category:Theories of history - Wikipedia

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    World-systems theory This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 20:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  6. List of mathematical theories - Wikipedia

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    Almgren–Pitts min-max theory; Approximation theory; Arakelov theory; Asymptotic theory; Automata theory; Bass–Serre theory; Bifurcation theory; Braid theory; Brill–Noether theory; Catastrophe theory; Category theory; Chaos theory; Character theory; Choquet theory; Class field theory; Cobordism theory; Coding theory; Cohomology theory ...

  7. List of conjectures - Wikipedia

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    knot theory Based on work of William Thurston on hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds, with results by William Meeks and Shing-Tung Yau on minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds, also with Hyman Bass , Cameron Gordon , Peter Shalen , and Rick Litherland, written up by Bass and John Morgan .

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Baltimore was held up as an example of progress. The authors cited a study showing that the publicly funded Baltimore Buprenorphine Initiative, aimed at increasing access to medical treatments, helped spur a roughly 50 percent reduction in the city’s overdose deaths between 1995 and 2009.

  9. Life history theory - Wikipedia

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    For example, there is a trade-off between maximizing body size and maximizing lifespan, and between maximizing offspring size and maximizing offspring number. [5] [6] This is also sometimes seen as a choice between quantity and quality of offspring. [7] These choices are the trade-offs that life history theory studies.