Ism vs Theory - What's the difference?
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An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
* 1965 , , Marxism, One Hundred Years in the Life of a Doctrine , p. 357,
* 1969 , Walter E. Minchinton, Mercantilism; System Or Expediency? , p. xi,
* 1986 , (Matthew Broderick) (as Ferris Bueller), :
* 1994 , Kenneth Kaye, Workplace Wars and How to End Them , p. 70,
Specifically , a form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism.
(obsolete) Mental conception; reflection, consideration.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , VII.19:
(sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc.
* 2002 , Duncan Steel, The Guardian , 23 May 2002:
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA, p. 118:
* 2009 , (Richard Dawkins), The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution , Bantam, p. 10:
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(uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.
* 1990 , Tony Bennett, Outside Literature , p. 139:
* 1998 , Elizabeth Souritz, The Great History of Russian Ballet :
(mathematics) A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
A hypothesis or conjecture.
* 1999 , Wes DeMott, Vapors :
* 2003 , Sean Coughlan, The Guardian , 21 Jun 2003:
(countable, logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems).
As nouns the difference between ism and theory
is that ism is an ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism while theory is mental conception; reflection, consideration.As an abbreviation ISM
is abbreviation of w:Imperial Service Order|Imperial Service Medal|lang=en.ism
English
Noun
(en noun)- […] his religion, his worship was like his daily bread to him; — which he did not take the trouble to talk much about; which he merely ate at stated intervals, and lived and did his work upon! This is ’s Catholicism of the Twelfth Century; — something like the Ism''''' of all true men in all true centuries, I fancy! Alas, compared with any of the '''''Isms current in these poor days, what a thing!
- An ism does not have to possess the fearful implements of state power to cut off a a deviant or heretical member.
- In his exposition, he has failed to achieve the identification of situation, theory, and policy necessary to create an ism .
- Isms' in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ' ism – he should believe in himself.
- It is important to distinguish between an ism' and a mere generalization about group differences. Generalizations that have statistical validity are not '''isms'''. An ' ism assumes that the generalization applies to an individual.
See also
* (l) * (l) * wasmAnagrams
* * *theory
English
Noun
- As they encrease the hatred of vice in some, so doe they enlarge the theory of wickednesse in all.
- It was only when Einstein's theory' of relativity was published in 1915 that physicists could show that Mercury's "anomaly" was actually because Newton's gravitational ' theory was incomplete.
- The world would need additional decades [...] before the Big Bang would begin to move from interesting idea to established theory .
- Scientists and creationists are understanding the word "theory'" in two very different senses. Evolution is a '''theory''' in the same sense as the heliocentric '''theory'''. In neither case should the word "only" be used, as in "only a ' theory ".
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- Does this mean, then, that there can be no such thing as a theory of literature?
- Lopukhov wrote a number of books and articles on ballet theory , as well as his memoirs.
- Knot theory classifies the mappings of a circle into 3-space.
- It's just a theory I have, and I wonder if women would agree. But don't men say a lot about themselves when a short-skirted woman slides out of a car or chair?
- The theory is that by stripping costs to the bone, they are able to offer ludicrously low fares.
- A theory is consistent if it has a model.