theorize
theorize
Definition
theo·rize (t̸hē′ə rīz′)
intransitive verb -·rized′, -·riz′·ing
to form a theory or theories; speculate
the′o·riz′er noun
the′o·ri·za′·tion noun
theorize
Synonyms
theorize
Usage Examples
Preposition: about
- cognition: Nevertheless, insights such as this can be integrated into contemporary scientific theorizing about cognition and the brain with surprisingly fruitful results.
- relation: First of all, it introduces the basic framework and terminology that comes to dominate all medieval theorizing about relations.
- language: This is perhaps harder to demonstrate directly, in a cultural practice which involves language but does not often explicitly theorize about language.
Object
- relationship: Jean Baudrillard The work of Jean Baudrillard is one of the most interesting ways into theorizing the relationship between our social system and simulation.
- identity: Their earliest work was an attempt to theorize political identity within a Marxist framework.
- medium: McLuhan theorized media in relation to what he called the sense ratio: the relative prominence of a single sensory organ.
- relation: This paper asks for a renewal of effort in theorizing the relation between work-life balance choices and the gendering of social roles.
- practice: This essay explores the implications of reading a translated text as multiply original by theorizing the practice of rendering ' Matha ' in English.
- way: Habitus represents Bourdieu's attempt to theorize the ways in which the social distinctions are incorporated into subjective dispositions.
Present participle complement
- concern: An observer in the present can only theorize concerning the origin of the universe that he sees on the basis of assumptions made.
Modifying Another Word
- about: There is no information for us to interpret or theorize about.
- only: An observer in the present can only theorize concerning the origin of the universe that he sees on the basis of assumptions made.
- also: They also theorize that if the strands are separated then each can form the template for the synthesis of an identical DNA molecule.
- much: The concept of a physiological signal is central to much theorizing on the control of food intake.
- now: And what is more, we are the only beings who have a complete world-picture, in which everything is by now theorized.
- just: Well, maybe that would be some kind of compensation but I'm not speaking for them personally, just theorizing.
Preposition: that
- people: We theorized that many people flying in for COMDEX would stay over the following weekend to save on air fare.
theorize Quotes
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has all the evidence. It biases the judgement.
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