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[[Image:Ethics by Spinoza.jpg|Spinoza's|thumb|right|200px|By virtue of his [[magnum opus]], the posthumous ''[[Ethics (book)|Ethics]]'', [[Spinoza]] is considered one of [[Western philosophy|Western philosophy's]] definitive ethicists.]] [[Image:Ethics by Spinoza.jpg|Spinoza's|thumb|right|200px|By virtue of his [[magnum opus]], the posthumous ''[[Ethics (book)|Ethics]]'', [[Spinoza]] is considered one of [[Western philosophy|Western philosophy's]] definitive ethicists.]]
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 +# An [[unproven]] [[conjecture]].
 +#: ''I have a '''theory''' about who broke into the school last night, but I have no proof to back it up.''
 +# An [[expectation]] of what [[should]] [[happen]], [[barring]] [[unforeseen]] [[circumstances]].
 +#: ''So we’ll be there in three hours?'' — ''That’s the '''theory'''.''
 +# {{countable}} {{science}} A [[coherent]] [[statement]] or set of statements that [[attempt]]s to [[explain]] [[observe]]d [[phenomenon|phenomena]].
 +#: ''There is now a well-developed '''theory''' of electrical charge.''
 +# A [[logical]] structure that enables one to [[deduce]] the possible results of every [[experiment]] that falls within its purview.
 +#: ''The '''theory''' of relativity was proposed by Einstein.''
 +# A [[field]] of [[study]] attempting to [[exhaustive]]ly [[describe]] a particular [[class]] of [[construct]]s. <!-- Not quite broad enough to include "music theory". Where do we put that? -->
 +#: ''Knot '''theory''' classifies the mappings of a circle into 3-space.''
 +# A [[set]] of [[axiom]]s together with all [[statement]]s [[derivable]] from them.
 +#: ''A '''theory''' is consistent if it has a model.''
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List of theorists: [[Aristotle]] - [[Gaston Bachelard]] - [[Mikhail Bakhtin]] - [[Georges Bataille]] - [[Roland Barthes]] - [[Charles Baudelaire]] - [[Simone de Beauvoir]] - [[Walter Benjamin]] - [[Pierre Bourdieu]] - [[Gilles Deleuze]] - [[Guy Debord]] - [[Denis Diderot]] - [[Umberto Eco]] - [[Kodwo Eshun]] - [[Michel Foucault]] - [[Sigmund Freud]] - [[Richard von Krafft-Ebing]] - [[Gershon Legman]] - [[Karl Marx]] - [[Nietzsche]] - [[Camille Paglia]] - [[Marquis de Sade]] - [[Peter Sloterdijk ]] - [[Susan Sontag]] - [[Spinoza]] - [[David Toop]] - [[Parker Tyler]] - [[Paul Virilio]] - [[Ken Wilber]] - [[Raymond Williams]] - [[Slavoj Žižek]] List of theorists: [[Aristotle]] - [[Gaston Bachelard]] - [[Mikhail Bakhtin]] - [[Georges Bataille]] - [[Roland Barthes]] - [[Charles Baudelaire]] - [[Simone de Beauvoir]] - [[Walter Benjamin]] - [[Pierre Bourdieu]] - [[Gilles Deleuze]] - [[Guy Debord]] - [[Denis Diderot]] - [[Umberto Eco]] - [[Kodwo Eshun]] - [[Michel Foucault]] - [[Sigmund Freud]] - [[Richard von Krafft-Ebing]] - [[Gershon Legman]] - [[Karl Marx]] - [[Nietzsche]] - [[Camille Paglia]] - [[Marquis de Sade]] - [[Peter Sloterdijk ]] - [[Susan Sontag]] - [[Spinoza]] - [[David Toop]] - [[Parker Tyler]] - [[Paul Virilio]] - [[Ken Wilber]] - [[Raymond Williams]] - [[Slavoj Žižek]]
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  1. An unproven conjecture.
    I have a theory about who broke into the school last night, but I have no proof to back it up.
  2. An expectation of what should happen, barring unforeseen circumstances.
    So we’ll be there in three hours?That’s the theory.
  3. Template:Countable Template:Science A coherent statement or set of statements that attempts to explain observed phenomena.
    There is now a well-developed theory of electrical charge.
  4. A logical structure that enables one to deduce the possible results of every experiment that falls within its purview.
    The theory of relativity was proposed by Einstein.
  5. A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
    Knot theory classifies the mappings of a circle into 3-space.
  6. A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them.
    A theory is consistent if it has a model.


List of theorists: Aristotle - Gaston Bachelard - Mikhail Bakhtin - Georges Bataille - Roland Barthes - Charles Baudelaire - Simone de Beauvoir - Walter Benjamin - Pierre Bourdieu - Gilles Deleuze - Guy Debord - Denis Diderot - Umberto Eco - Kodwo Eshun - Michel Foucault - Sigmund Freud - Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Gershon Legman - Karl Marx - Nietzsche - Camille Paglia - Marquis de Sade - Peter Sloterdijk - Susan Sontag - Spinoza - David Toop - Parker Tyler - Paul Virilio - Ken Wilber - Raymond Williams - Slavoj Žižek

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A - Kathy Acker - Guillaume Apollinaire - Theodor Adorno - Louis Althusser - Aristotle - Rudolf Arnheim - B - Gaston Bachelard - Mikhail Bakhtin - Georges Bataille - Roland Barthes - Charles Baudelaire - Jean Baudrillard - Michel Bauwens - Simone de Beauvoir - Jeremy Bentham - Walter Benjamin - Alfred Binet - Maurice Blanchot - Iwan Bloch - Pierre Bourdieu - Jean-Pierre Bouyxou - Scott Bukatman - Judith Butler - C - Noël Carroll - Daniel Chandler - Noam Chomsky - Carol Clover - Barbara Creed - Aleister Crowley - Arthur C. Danto - Gilles Deleuze - Charles Darwin - Guy Debord - Jacques Derrida - Bram Dijkstra - Mark Dery - René Descartes - Denis Diderot - Emile Durkheim - E - Umberto Eco - Havelock Ellis - August Endell - Kodwo Eshun - F - Leslie Fiedler - Michel Foucault - Sigmund Freud - Northrop Frye - G - Hal Foster - Antonio Gramsci - Clement Greenberg - Germaine Greer - Elizabeth Grosz - H - Jurgen Habermas - Stuart Hall - Dick Hebdige - Friedrich Hegel - Martin Heidegger - Magnus Hirschfeld - Max Horkheimer - David Hume - I - Luce Irigaray - J - Katrien Jacobs - Frederic Jameson - Charles Jencks - K - Immanuel Kant - Linda Kauffman - Alfred Charles Kinsey - Siegfried Kracauer - Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Julia Kristeva - L - Henri Lefèbvre - Gershon Legman - Jacques Lacan - Jean-François Lyotard - M - Lev Manovich - Greil Marcus - Herbert Marcuse - Karl Marx - Marshall McLuhan - Laura Mulvey - Henri Michaux - N - Nietzsche - P - Camille Paglia - Morse Peckham - Sadie Plant - Plato - Karl Popper - Neil Postman - R - Andrew Ross - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - John Ruskin - S - Marquis de Sade - Sartre - Arthur Schopenhauer - Steven Shaviro - Susan Sontag - Spinoza - Robert Stam - Thomas Swiss - T - David Toop - Parker Tyler - E. B. Tylor - V - Paul Virilio - Giambattista Vico - Voltaire - W - Ken Wilber - Linda Williams - Raymond Williams - Mary Wollstonecraft - Z - Slavoj Žižek

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