theorist
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- noun
- /ˈθiːərɪst/
- Jacob Ziv is one of the great theorists of information theory.
- political theorist
- literary theorists
- feminist theorists
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Watch on YouTubeSo you are an energy theorist slash philosopher.
- So you are an energy theorist slash philosopher.
- But remember what all of the narcissism theorists and researchers say?
- And yet we theorists, we still don't know what it is.
- So that means we have what game theorists would call a dominant strategy.
- What are all of these great theorists saying about flourishing and well-being?
- Marx was not a theorist of inequality.
- And the, the and personality theorists would tell you that doesn't happen.
- So these game theorists came up with a way of formalizing this.
- He's a expert, but he's only a theorist.
- And you know, it's harder to get grants as a theorist.
- There was a great string theorist named Joe Polchinski.
- So this is what string theorists usually look at.
- OK, Isn't God the ultimate conspiracy theorist?
- I did the research, you know, I wasn't a theorist.
- And as he points out, the same considerations hold for rule theorists.
- Well, that's just me being, you know, conspiracy theorist, apparently, Yeah.
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To understand the development of a theory, one must read the theorist's works chronologically since ideas are developed sequentially.
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From this analysis, we can see the gaps between what theorists say and what teachers actually do.
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And Hayek is a brilliant theorist of that learning machine.
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And who was the theorist of communism?
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In the fourth section, we offer an assessment of why these theorists take property to be different.
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Well, look, he wasn't a string theorist, but he was very, very smart.
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So you are an energy theorist slash philosopher.
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So a bunch of theorists were all working independently.
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She was a feminist theorist, and she was an Episcopal priest.
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Jacob Ziv is one of the greatest theorists of information theory.
Synonyms
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A person who has deep ideas about important subjects
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A person who works with ideas and rules rather than practical tasks
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A person who makes ideas to explain things in science or art
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A person who strongly supports a set of ideas and tries to spread them
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Compounds
- Specialized
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A person who studies whole numbers and patterns, like prime numbers
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A person who finds patterns or special meaning in events that are probably random
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Etymology
The word theorist comes from the Greek root theoria, which meant 'a way of seeing' or 'looking' and is the same root as theory. So a theorist is someone who studies ideas and builds explanations.