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Etymology edit

non- +‎ theory

Noun edit

nontheory (plural nontheories)

  1. That which is not a theory.
    • 1990, John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N Woods, Milton Friedman: critical assessments, Volume 1:
      This sort of thing blossoms into elaborate nontheories, for example, the permanent income hypothesis (Pesek, 1979, pp. 67-69).