BPT is a descriptive theory based on the SP / A theory of Lola Lopes ( 1987 ), and closely related to Roy's safety-first criterion.
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But, whether in the end Hume purports to provide a normative ethical theory, rather than a merely descriptive theory of moral psychology, is a contentious issue among Hume scholars.
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Whitehead sought a holistic, comprehensive cosmology that provides a systematic descriptive theory of the world which can be used for the diverse human intuitions gained through ethical, aesthetic, religious, and scientific experiences, and not just the scientific.
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While the strategy researchers have tended to focus on testing theories of firm performance, many organizational theorists are focused on more descriptive theories, the one uniting theme has been the use of computational models to either verify or extend theories.
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This was meant to deal with the objection by some critics of Russell's theory that a descriptive theory of meaning would make the referent of a name dependent on the knowledge that the person saying the name has about the referent.
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Design theories are different from descriptive theories in that they are goal oriented, offering guidance about which methods should be used to achieve different kinds of goals in different situations-what Herbert Simon referred to as a " design science ".
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Notwithstanding these differences however, descriptivism and the descriptive theory of proper names came to be associated with both the views of Frege and Russell and both address the general problems ( names without bearers, Frege s puzzles concerning identity and substitution in contexts of intentional attitude attributions ) in a similar manner.
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More substantively it addresses the extent of which technology is autonomous and how much force it has in determining human practice or social structure . " Critical " "'theories of technology "'often take a descriptive theory as their basis and articulate concerns, examining what way the relationship can be changed.
