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  • Remember one of the key principles in our meta-theory of relationship: We were wounded in relationships, and we are healed in relationships.

    God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010

  • Remember one of the key principles in our meta-theory of relationship: We were wounded in relationships, and we are healed in relationships.

    God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010

  • His research interests include the anthropogenic driving forces of environmental change; the connections between theory, meta-theory, and methodology; historical materialism; human ecology; ethnozoology/anthrozoology; and the sociology, history, and philosophy of science.

    Contributor: Richard York 2010

  • Remember one of the key principles in our meta-theory of relationship: We were wounded in relationships, and we are healed in relationships.

    God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010

  • A student drew my attention to an interesting LOST meta-theory, in other words, an attempt to find a unifying thread that relates the physics and the mythology of LOST in an overarching explanatory framework.

    Archive 2009-02-01 James F. McGrath 2009

  • A sort of meta-theory not aimed at interactions embedded into the lives of actual users, but a theory for how to operate at a higher, disciplinary level.

    What theory in HCI is about Erik Stolterman 2009

  • Perched as a super-ordinate meta-theory arrogantly at the summit of this unfolding Western drama, racism, since the enslavement of blacks has served as the most important, most destructive, most narcissistic and yet, the most carefully protected of all white values.

    Are We Really a Nation of Cowards on the Issue of Race? 2009

  • Mysterianism is a meta-theory of the Trinity, that is, a theory about trinitarian theories, to the effect that an acceptable Trinity theory must, given our present epistemic limitations, to some degree lack understandable content.

    Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

  • A student drew my attention to an interesting LOST meta-theory, in other words, an attempt to find a unifying thread that relates the physics and the mythology of LOST in an overarching explanatory framework.

    LOST Mirror Matter James F. McGrath 2009

  • Yet, a meta-theory might be able to unite the various theories into one scheme that honors all the different points of view.

    Integral Personality Theory William Harryman 2009

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