theory
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Second, if you’re the president and you want to give the Madman Theory a try, you have to play the Madman role consistently.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026
He supports Integrated Information Theory, which proposes that any system with a sufficiently high level of integrated information has some form of subjective experience, offering a scientific interpretation of panpsychism.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
“The Quantity Theory of Morality” is his 20th work of fiction: a novel in six parts that reprises several of his debut’s themes, with a contemporary twist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
His most influential work, The Theory of Communicative Action, published in 1981, argued that human societies were sustained not by political or economic power but by the capacity for rational dialogue.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
Partly this was because he was woefully ignorant of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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