Named scientific theories, laws, hypotheses and models: the explanatory claims a discipline holds, distinct from the concepts they are built from and the experiments that tested them. It excludes individual experiments, which are recorded separately with a connection back to the theory they tested.
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The general sense of "an intelligible explanation based on observation and reasoning" is from 1630s.
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