ostensible truth of the theory

overturn a theory

prove a theory

state a theory

doctrinal history

doxographer

Theories abound as to ［about］

formulate a new theory on

theory as to the origin of

theory proposed by

widely receive someone's theory

"Can you explain for me precisely what the theory is?" "I don't know that I can explain it precisely but I'll tell you about some points."

In all probability it held its ground among sober-minded and thoughtful men, though neither the church nor the world was prepared to hear of it with tolerance.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_BELFA17", "2359673"

Another, of still wider grasp and more radical significance, is the doctrine of the Conservation of Energy, the ultimate philosophical issues of which are as yet but dimly seen―〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_BELFA34", "2252421"

Combining such facts with the doctrine of hereditary transmission, we reach a theory of Instinct.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_BELFA36", "2280527"

Thus more than 2,000 years ago the doctrine of the 'survival of the fittest,' which in our day, not on the basis of vague conjecture, but of positive knowledge, has been raised to such extraordinary significance, had received at all events partial enunciation. 3〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_BELFA03", "2541489"

There is a theory that the area was a burial place for the family of Emperor Tenmu.〔【出典】Catch a Wave, 2003年2月28日号◆【出版社】株式会社浜島書店 〕

Soon, Chinese blogsphere began to protest against his theory. in 163.com, for example, more than 3000 replies put Professor Zheng Zaishu under critiques. More than half of the replies despised Korea as a country of self-contempt that tried to seek comfort in self-deception and steal culture from its neighbor China. Many netizens stroke back the professor's idea by claiming that Koreans are actually descents of Chinese. The most widely cited comment, a metaphor concerning plastic surgery, straightforwardly disdains Korea. Because most of the catcalls had impolite remarks, a netizen from Korea （the location is shown on the website） urged Chinese netizens not to abuse, but was soon inundated under the 100 pages of discussions. In a survey by 163.com, 1960 people vote the option that Korea is a "small country with provincial people", while 1244 people think "we Chinese had better rescue our culture rather than to dispute with others".〔【出典】Global Voices Online◆【英文】Bob Chen ◆【和訳】Hanako Tokita ◆【License】CC BY 3.0 〕

the latest developments of which were set forth with such power and clearness at the last meeting of the British Association.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_BELFA02", "2597888"

that doctrine which 'binds nature fast in fate' to an extent not hitherto recognized, exacting from every antecedent its equivalent consequent, from every consequent its equivalent antecedent, and bringing vital as well as physical phenomena under the dominion of that law of causal connexion which, so far as the human understanding has yet pierced, asserts itself everywhere in nature.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_BELFA34", "2597018"

published a short time previously by another individual to which I will not say that I adhered,〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_DISCO06", "2595904"

It maintains that species （animal and plant types） are fixed, stable, and permanent.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_CURRI", "2378119"

To elude this power and still allow opportunity for the expression of opinion, the doctrine of 'two-fold truth' was invented,〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_BELFA15", "2542634"

various theories

However, through recent studies carried out by scholars, more people are coming to believe in the theory that it is not Emperor Nintoku who is buried in this huge tomb.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 2007年5月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT247022", "2328184"

But before stating his relation to the Epicurean doctrine, it will be well to say a few words on the effect, as regards science, of the general introduction of monotheism among European nations.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_BELFA17", "2270451"

But, if the doctrine of final causes will not help us to comprehend the anomalies of living structure, the principle of adaptation must surely lead us to understand why certain living beings are found in certain regions of the world and not in others.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_DARWI", "2276051"

But under this doctrine, species arise independently of one another.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_CURRI", "2275101"

and in the present case the logical form of the doctrine stands on a very different footing from its substance.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_DARWI", "2585968"

And we would remind those who, ignorant of the facts, must be moved by authority, that no one has asserted the incompetence of the doctrine of final causes, in its application to physiology and anatomy, more strongly than our own eminent anatomist, Professor Owen,〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_DARWI", "2250852"

Again, this doctrine carries with it no single explanation of how these species arose—〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_CURRI", "2238353"

This tea is well-known for showing results in just 5 days, just as its name says, and it is specially prepared from natural diet ingredients carefully selected on the basis of Chinese modern theories of internal secretions.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1998年5月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT139089", "2537652"

I don't put a lot of stock in the theory.

and, combining with it the doctrine of Copernicus, reached the sublime generalization that the fixed stars are suns, scattered numberless through space and accompanied by satellites, which bear the same relation to them that our earth does to our sun, or our moon to our earth.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_BELFA16", "2588954"

Hence, Creationism holds to the doctrine of Fixity of Species （no evolution） and accounts for the variety of life by invoking separate divine acts of creation.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_CURRI", "2318306"

Abstracting again from experience, the leaders of scientific speculation reached at length the pregnant doctrine of atoms and molecules,〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_BELFA02", "2232553"

and this led me to fear lest among my own doctrines likewise some one might be found in which I had departed from the truth, notwithstanding the great care I have always taken not to accord belief to new opinions of which I had not the most certain demonstrations, and not to give expression to aught that might tend to the hurt of any one.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_DISCO06", "2588074"

Wittmaack

Noticing this gap in the doctrine of Democritus, he struck in with the penetrating thought, linked, however, with some wild speculation, that it lay in the very nature of those combinations which were suited to their ends （in other words, in harmony with their environment） to maintain themselves, while unfit combinations, having no proper habitat, must rapidly disappear.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ（独立行政法人情報通信研究機構）〕"_BELFA03", "2414500"

Richard Locksley from the University of California at San Francisco thinks he might have found a partial explanation for what's being called "the hygiene hypothesis.""VOAP0003", "2438345"

Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in 1859.

in the Newtonian sense

Pythagoreanism

Malthusianism