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- adjective Unrelated to or lacking a theoretical basis.
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- adjective Independent of
theory
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Examples
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Is it possible for our current classification scheme in psychiatry to be in any important sense "atheoretical" and independent of any particular theories of the etiology of mental disorders?
Mental Illness Perring, Christian 2005
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There's little point in criticizing theoretical papers for being atheoretical because they lack applications or case studies or descriptions of real life phenomena.
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A long-reigning fad in academic finance is the addition of two fallacious atheoretical risk factors: Size and Value, which allegedly have their own risk premia.
The Risk Premium, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What results is "a skewed methodological approach which can most appropriately be described as one of decontextualised atheoretical empiricism".
Hugh Muir's Diary 2011
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But when I was a grad student at UCSD, Rob Engle taught us that he strongly favored smaller models (four or five regressors, at most), and I've carried that atheoretical, soft knowledge with me into my career.
IQ and Living Standards, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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All I can say is, whether or not one is atheoretical 'zionist' or not thr practical situation is Israel exists and generations have now been born there and know no other home.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Well, there is now a rather large and sophisticated literature on bandwagons and contagions, all of which is designed to explain "fads," which you seem to think are somehow atheoretical.
The 1920's and the 1990's, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Survival of the Fittest Chris Anderson has made a dramatic overstatement in his description of the efforts by applied mathematicians in the atheoretical acquisition of scientific knowledge ("The End of Theory," issue 16.07).
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Another student, who did enroll, complained on the course evaluation that my approach was “atheoretical,” even though, in a seminar on Evil in the American Novel since 1940, we had read a pretty healthy dose of recent philosophical writing on the problem of evil.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Another student, who did enroll, complained on the course evaluation that my approach was “atheoretical,” even though, in a seminar on Evil in the American Novel since 1940, we had read a pretty healthy dose of recent philosophical writing on the problem of evil.
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