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toy theory comparison table

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theory hypothesis A rationally coherent account of a wider range of phenomena than is customarily accounted for by a hypothesis.

toy theory theory A theory which is known to be too simple to describe reality, but which is nonetheless useful for theorists to study because it incorporates some important features of reality. For example, most of what is known about magnetic monopoles in grand unified theories was discovered first in a toy theory that includes only three Higgs fields, while the simplest realistic grand unified theory includes twenty-four of them.

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
theory	hypothesis	A rationally coherent account of a wider range of phenomena than is customarily accounted for by a hypothesis.
toy theory	theory	A theory which is known to be too simple to describe reality, but which is nonetheless useful for theorists to study because it incorporates some important features of reality. For example, most of what is known about magnetic monopoles in grand unified theories was discovered first in a toy theory that includes only three Higgs fields, while the simplest realistic grand unified theory includes twenty-four of them.

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