• n.
    ⦿a belief that can guide behavior
    lexical concept
  • the architect has a theory that more is less
  • they killed him on the theory that dead men tell no tales

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:theory
wn:interlingual indexili:i68107

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labeltheory