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Two Kinds of Theory: What Psychology Can Learn from Einstein.

By Marek McGann and Craig P. Speelman — 2020

A century ago, Einstein (1919) distinguished between two kinds of theory - theories of principle, and constructive theories. These have separate but complementary roles to play in the advancement of knowledge, in the manner in which they relate to data, and how they are developed.

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The Improvisational Oncologist

To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.

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Psychological Approaches