The merest artisan needs to theorize, i

e. to think-to think beforehand, to foresee; and that must be done by the aid of general principles, by the knowledge of laws. J. F. Clarke, Self Culture, p. 139. theorizer (thē'ō-ri-zér), n . [ theorize + -er1 .] A theorist. Also spelled theoriser . With the exception, in fact, of a few late absolutist theorizers in Germany, this is, perhaps, the truth of all others the most harmoniously re-echoed by every philosopher of every school. Sir W. Hamilton . theorizing (thē'ō-ri-zing), n. [Verbal n. of theorize, v.] The act or proce of forming a theory or theories; speculation. Whatever may be thought of the general the or i zings of the last two, it is clear that their method is not the patiently inductive one of Darwin.