Artinya Teori

Sebelum kepada isi dan macam-macam teori belajar ada baiknya kita mengetahui dulu apa sih pengetian teori?

Kalau kata dosen saya "Theory is a set of Statement". Teori merupakan sekumpulan atau seperangkat pernyataan. Tapi tidak semua pernyataan disebut teori. Ada tiga karakteristik yang membedakannya yakni: Unifying Statement, Universal Proposition, dan Predictive Statement. Lebih jelasnya mengenai pengertian teori adalah sebagai berikut:

The word theory has many distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion.

In science a theory is a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise verified through empirical observation. For the scientist, “theory” is not in any way an antonym of “fact”. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theories commonly used to describe and explain this behavior are Newton’s theory of universal gravitation (see also gravitation), and the general theory of relativity.

In common usage, the word theory is often used to signify a conjecture, an opinion, a speculation, or a hypothesis. In this usage, a theory is not necessarily based on facts; in other words, it is not required to be consistent with true descriptions of reality. This usage of theory leads to the common incorrect statements. True descriptions of reality are more reflectively understood as statements which would be true independently of what people think about them.

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