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Example sentences for "theoretic"

Lexicographically close words:
theophanies; theophany; theorbo; theorem; theorems; theoretical; theoretically; theories; theorique; theorise
  1. It is left to the theoretic principles of reason to decide whether the causality of the will suffices for the realization of the objects or not, this being an inquiry into the possibility of the objects of the volition.

  2. Whence it resulted in the Dialectic of Pure Theoretic Reason that the opposite methods of attaining the unconditioned and the totality of the conditions were both wrong.

  3. It will appear, then, that it is not a theoretic but a practical purpose that makes this a necessity.

  4. Therefore, in the theoretic use of reason, it is experience alone that can justify us in assuming them.

  5. She provided men at once with the theoretic laws of an unalterable cosmos and also with the practical rules of the rapid and thrilling game of morality.

  6. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, a man of real though decadent genius, threw a theoretic glamour over them which is already fading.

  7. The importance from a theoretic point of view of a distinction between the maximum working-day and the normal working-day would of itself have justified our dwelling on the foregoing details.

  8. The other extreme is an enthusiastic belief in the almost magical educative efficacy of any kind of activity, granted it is an activity and not a passive absorption of academic and theoretic material.

  9. Both of these important recommendations have grown out of experience, not out of theory, but they afford excellent exemplifications of the theoretic point just made.

  10. More a theoretic than a practical man, he was not sufficiently convinced that a system may be good in itself and bad in relation to particular circumstances.

  11. To regard this question from a theoretic and international point of view, to the exclusion of any regard for the separate national interests of France, is a sheer absurdity.

  12. Its commercial, currency, and economic and theoretic influence has certainly, and much more, been hitherto overlooked.

  13. The more the processes of the treatment correspond to this theoretic description the greater will be the success of psychoanalytic therapy.

  14. What shall I deal with first, the evidence of experience or theoretic considerations?

  15. Such a child, suspicious, afraid of the aggressive impulse which dominates the world, would prove a sad theoretic construction.

  16. Persons attending to the child, who surely make no pretensions to a theoretic attitude, seem to judge sucking in a similar manner.

  17. Of course the differences between manifest homosexuality and the normal attitude are not thus erased; their practical importance persists, but their theoretic value is greatly decreased.

  18. I will now proceed to show by fact, actual experience, not theoretic reasoning, but by the records themselves of the Treasury, that the operations of that department may be as well conducted without as with this bank.

  19. Speculative or theoretic knowledge is divided into abstract and concrete.

  20. The second work is practical or temporal; it settles the distribution of power and the institutions that are most conformable to the spirit of the system which has previously been thought out in the course of the theoretic work.

  21. The first is theoretic or spiritual, aiming at the development of a new principle of co-ordinating social relations and the formation of the system of general ideas which are destined to guide society.

  22. I have to deal only with his opinions; not with his theoretic doctrines of law, of which latter I profess to know nothing; but with the theoretic doctrines of morality he lays down.

  23. And I believe that the best theoretic work yet done in the subject is the beginning made by F.

  24. In 1895 the second half of his psychological seminar was announced as "a discussion of certain theoretic problems, as Consciousness, Knowledge, Self, the relations of Mind and Body.

  25. Some theoretic remarks I make at the end may interest you.

  26. Impediments that arise in the theoretic sphere might perhaps be avoided if the stream of mental action should leave that sphere betimes and pass into the practical.

  27. At such moments of energetic living we feel as if there were something diseased and contemptible, yea vile, in theoretic grubbing and brooding.

  28. As a purely theoretic problem, namely, the casuistic question would hardly ever come up at all.

  29. To deepen our theoretic sense of the difference between a world with chances in it and a deterministic world is the most I can hope to do; and this I may now at last begin upon, after all our tedious clearing of the way.

  30. The interest of theoretic rationality, the relief of identification, is but one of a thousand human purposes.

  31. As the last theoretic pulse dies away, it does not leave the mental process complete: it is but the forerunner of the practical moment, in which alone the cycle of mentality finds its rhythmic pause.

  32. In the total game of life we stake our persons all the while; and if in its theoretic part our persons will help us to a conclusion, surely we should also stake them there, however inarticulate they may be.

  33. In other words, theistic mysticism, that form of theism which at first sight seems most to have transcended the fundamental otherness of God from man, has done it least of all in the theoretic way.

  34. With this we seem to have considered the possibilities of purely theoretic rationality.

  35. But still the theoretic question {194} would remain, What is the ground of the obligation, even here?

  36. The problem for them has simply vanished,--vanished from the sight of an attitude which refuses to notice such futile theoretic difficulties.

  37. The facts of the world in their sensible diversity are always before us, but our theoretic need is that they should be conceived in a way that reduces their manifoldness to simplicity.

  38. The death of a friend who departs from life in heresy affects them in the same way as the loss of another whose creed was unimpeachable: while the theoretic difference is infinite, the practical is virtually nothing.

  39. Outside of Christendom we discern, received and operative in various forms, all the theoretic modes of salvation acknowledged within it, and some others in addition.

  40. The theoretic falsities of such a scheme are as numerous and evident as its practical abuses have been enormous and notorious.

  41. My object, so far, has been to mark the progress of ascertained theoretic notions as to Seismology.

  42. But what is really curious is that most people have assumed that a dislike of Home's investigations implies a theoretic disbelief in spiritualism.

  43. Browning's theoretic attitude in the matter was, therefore, in all probability quite open and unbiassed.

  44. It is very easy to see that most of the theoretic science of the 19th century was only a relation of reaction against theologic dogma, and has no more to do with Truth than has a wave that bounds back from a shore.

  45. Perceiving that plain and righteous conduct is the end of life in this world, he prayed men not to be over-curious in searching for, and handling, and again handling, the theoretic base on which the prerogatives of virtue repose.

  46. It is a revolution, he said, of doctrine and theoretic dogma.

  47. Paine's writing gains rather than loses in theoretic interest, because the warmth of his sympathies melts, as he proceeds, the icy logic of his eighteenth century individualism.

  48. If the central tendencies of Godwin's teaching survive these later modifications, it is none the less true that some of his theoretic foundations have been shaken in the work of reconstruction.

  49. Price, he whittled away the whole theoretic significance of the English Revolution of 1688, but he remained its partisan.

  50. The question which of these occurs is not of any importance for the theoretic serviceability of the characteristic in question.

  51. This, however, does not affect the value of their general theories from the point of view of theoretic psychology, and it is from this point of view that their results are important for the analysis of mind.

  52. Perré and Quidet realizes, then, the best theoretic conditions for this sort of work, to wit: 1.

  53. The modern shipowner and his theoretic friends prefer to waste their energy in concocting theories to solve an imaginary problem--the only problem being that which exists in their own minds.

  54. I think this might be trying to their faith in theoretic and sentimental government.

  55. It is not for mere theoretic upholders of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity to meddle with such things.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theoretic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    theoretical knowledge; theoretical reason