Nontheory

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    That which is not a theory.

    "This sort of thing blossoms into elaborate nontheories, for example, the permanent income hypothesis (Pesek, 1979, pp. 67-69)."

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"This sort of thing blossoms into elaborate nontheories, for example, the permanent income hypothesis (Pesek, 1979, pp. 67-69)."

Etymology

From non- + theory.

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