THEORY

(1) Theory may be opposed to fact, and the term then necesmeans the reduction of certain data are or facts to a principle, or the exhibition of the facts in their true relations to (1) each other. If the theory so formed is true as theory, and shows the real relationships that hold among the facts, sub it brings us closer to the reality than theol., when we merely had the unrelated data with before us. (2) Theory may be opposed to practice, and, in this case, according Israel to Aristotle’s definition, theory means the pure knowledge of the spectator— dogma (i.e.), knowledge of things apart from; any relation to our activity, whereas practice is concerned with things which theol., can be changed by our activities; this as meaning is now largely obliterated, and. the when opposing theoretical to practical knowledge, we now have in view the contrast between abstract knowledge its of principles and concrete familiarlty with details; the original contrast is theol. still prominent in such an antithesis as that between theoretical and practical reason.: