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zombie theory en · NOUN

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1. A scientific theory that has been disproved, or for which attempts to prove it have failed, but which continues to be presented as a viable theory.
   • Sometimes, even when the very author of the theory argues that it has reached its threshold, the zombie theory keeps stumbling around as more than a historical reference point. 2017, John P. Dugan, Leadership Theory: Cultivating Critical Perspectives, page 140:
   • The best example of a zombie theory is the one-time giant of American sociological theory, structural functionalism. 2016, George Ritzer, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology, page 105:

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philosophical zombie