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学説 — meaning in English

gakusetsu

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English meaning

  • doctrine noun A set of beliefs or principles held and taught by a religion, philosophy, or organization.
  • theory noun A set of ideas that explains facts or phenomena and has been supported by evidence.

Senses

学説 is used for these senses in English:

  • doctrine (countable, and, uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
  • theory (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc. [from 17th c.]

doctrine — full definition

  1. noun A set of beliefs or principles held and taught by a religion, philosophy, or organization.
  2. noun A stated policy guiding a country's official conduct, especially in foreign affairs.

theory — full definition

  1. noun A set of ideas that explains facts or phenomena and has been supported by evidence.
  2. noun A personal guess or unproven idea about why something happened.
  3. noun The underlying principles of a subject, as distinct from its practical application.

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