Personal Theories
Ever since birth we have been forming our own personal theories about the world and everything in it. We form personal theories to explain the events and objects in our individual world, such as family and entertainment. Although these theories are based on observation and fact, they are not necessarily 100% correct or complete. Theories grow and change the same way as concepts and schemas. Personal theories are what influence defining features of concepts, thus influence whole concepts. This is an individual process. Personal theories are formed without any outside help. This can often lead to misconceptions or false beliefs. The most correct personal theories are the ones based on the most correct concepts and schemas, or the building blocks of theories.
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Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or theories:
“Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“Whatever practical people may say, this world is, after all, absolutely governed by ideas, and very often by the wildest and most hypothetical ideas. It is a matter of the very greatest importance that our theories of things that seem a long way apart from our daily lives, should be as far as possible true, and as far as possible removed from error.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)