(٢) ١٠١٩ The LEXICON WEBSTER DICTIONARY , VOL II , P ونص المعجم: ((A systematic arrangement of facts with respect to some real or hypothetical laws ; a hypothetical explanation of phenomena ; a hypothesis not yet empirically verified as law but accepted as the basis of experimentation ; an exposition of the general or abstract principles of any science or humanity which have been derived from practice ; a plan or system suggested as a method of action ; ... a doctrine or scheme of things resting merely on speculation, contemplation, supposition , or conjecture)) والترجمة للباحث