The more ambitious theory of Wilhelm Nitsche, which assigned to Anaximenes a larger part of the Demosthenic corpus ( speeches 10-13 and 25, letters 1-4, proems ), can be rejected.

This document, which the Luftwaffe adopted, rejected Giulio Douhet's theory of terror bombing.

Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), for example, rejected the 4-elemental theory, and with only a vague understanding of his chemicals and medicines formed a hybrid of alchemy and science in what was to be called iatrochemistry.

If the wave function is regarded as ontologically real, and collapse is entirely rejected, a many worlds theory results.

As late as 1953 – just five years before Carey introduced the theory of plate tectonics – the theory of continental drift was rejected by the physicist Scheiddiger on the following grounds.

* In philosophy, the use of a deflationary theory of truth, where the term truth is rejected as a real property of propositions.

Gordan, the house expert on the theory of invariants for the Mathematische Annalen, was not able to appreciate the revolutionary nature of Hilbert's theorem and rejected the article, criticizing the exposition because it was insufficiently comprehensive.

In the 1960s, theologian Charles Hartshorne scrupulously examined and rejected both deism and pandeism ( as well as pantheism ) in favor of a conception of God whose characteristics included " absolute perfection in some respects, relative perfection in all others " or " AR ", writing that this theory " is able consistently to embrace all that is positive in either deism or pandeism ", concluding that " panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations ".

Generally, this theory is rejected mainly by scholars who read the suffering in 1 Peter to be caused by social, rather than official, discrimination.

Some Christian theologians ( particularly neo-Scholastics ) saw Cantor's work as a challenge to the uniqueness of the absolute infinity in the nature of God — on one occasion equating the theory of transfinite numbers with pantheism — a proposition which Cantor vigorously rejected.

This theory was eventually rejected, and scientists now believe that the giraffe's neck arose through Darwinian natural selection — that ancestral giraffes with long necks thereby had a competitive advantage that better enabled them to reproduce and pass on their genes.

The theory rejected the concept of spill-over that neofunctionalism proposed.

The Supreme Court rejected the compact theory in several nineteenth century cases, undermining the basis for the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.

Abraham Lincoln also rejected the compact theory saying the Constitution was a binding contract among the states and no contract can be changed unilaterally by one party.

Hall subscribed to Ellis and Krafft-Ebbing's theories and rejected Freud's theory that same-sex attraction was caused by childhood trauma and was curable.

In newly introduced doctrine, The Conduct of the Aerial Air War in 1935, Wever rejected the theory of Douhet and outlined five key points to air strategy:

Outside and against this process of turning of Marxism into an ideology of domination, however, were various revolutionary tendencies which still drew on Marx's work to inform their struggles and which rejected both social-democratic and Marxist-Leninist versions of his theory.

Korsch rejected the eternal and static, and he was obsessed by the essential role of practice in a theory ’ s truth.

Today, this theory is rejected by the majority of Polish historians, who consider the name Mieczysław to have been invented by Długosz to explain the origin of the name Mieszko.

However the journal Nature rejected Fermi's paper, saying that the theory was " too remote from reality ".

They rejected involvement with the labor movement and Marxism's historical theory of class struggle.

He rejected the " emission theory " of Ptolemaic optics with its rays being emitted by the eye, and instead put forward the idea that light reflected in all directions in straight lines from all points of the objects being viewed and then entered the eye, although he was unable to explain the correct mechanism of how the eye captured the rays.

Although psychologists and physiologists have rejected the relevance of this theory to film viewership, film academics and theorists generally have not.

However, classical liberals rejected Adam Smith's belief that the " invisible hand " would lead to general benefits and embraced Thomas Malthus ' view that population expansion would prevent any general benefit and David Ricardo's view of the inevitability of class conflict.

When the government proposed a new federal code of civil procedure in 2006, replacing the cantonal codes of civil procedure, it rejected the introduction of class actions, arguing that:

Lloyd rejected this in favour of a simple distinction of economic class yet for him true folk music was, in Charles Seeger's words, " associated with a lower class " in culturally and socially stratified societies.

Among the rejected Lake translation: " not genuine " writings must be reckoned also the Acts of Paul, and the so-called Shepherd, and the Apocalypse of Peter, and in addition to these the extant epistle of Barnabas, and the so-called Teachings of the Apostles ; and besides, as I said, the Apocalypse of John, if it seem proper, which some, as I said, reject, but which others class with the accepted books.

Early ideas of eugenics posited that human intelligence correlated strongly with social class, but these ideas were rejected, and the idea that genes ( or simply " blood ") determined a person's character became regarded as racist.

In economics the DC preferred competition to cooperation, supported the model of social market economy and rejected the Marxist's idea of class struggle.

These " Instructions " refuted the Marxist-based idea that class struggle is fundamental to history, and rejected the interpretation of religious phenomena such as the Exodus and the Eucharist in exclusively political terms.

Hippies rejected established institutions, criticized middle class values, opposed nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Eastern philosophy, championed sexual liberation, were often vegetarian and eco-friendly, promoted the use of psychedelic drugs which they believed expanded one's consciousness, and created intentional communities or communes.

In 1566 and 1568, Pope Pius V rejected this class of congregation, but they continued to exist and even increased in number.

However, a class action lawsuit alleging that the accident caused detrimental health effects was rejected by Harrisburg U. S. District Court Judge Sylvia Rambo.

In contrast with Karl Marx and his adherents, Lassalle rejected the idea that the state was a class-based power structure with the function of preserving existing class relations and destined to " wither away " in a future classless society.

An initial idea for a comedy set in the world of football was rejected by the BBC, as was his alternative idea, a sit-com centring around a cockney market trader in working class, modern-day London.

: National Review stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it … it is out of place because, in its maturity, literate America rejected conservatism in favor of radical social experimentation … since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to … run just about everything.

He rejected a pedagogical approach to political work and developed a " theory of the Party ", whereby the organization was meant to display non-immediate goals, as a rally of similarly minded people, and not a necessary body of the working class.

Marxist socialists, believing in the inevitability of class struggle between the working class and the owning class, rejected the idea of workers making common cause with the petty bourgeois Liberals in exchange for scraps of charity from the legislative table.

At a Washington, D. C. convention in 1935, Rutherford rejected Russell's teaching that the " great company " of Revelation 7: 9 was a " secondary spiritual class " composed of millions of Christians who would be resurrected to heaven apart from the 144, 000 " elect ", and instead argued that the " great multitude ", the " sheep " of Matthew 25 and the " Jonadabs " of 2 Kings chapter 10 all picture the people who could potentially survive Armageddon and receive everlasting human life on earth if they became Jehovah's Witnesses before it began.

Industrial relations was formed with a strong problem-solving orientation that rejected both the classical economists ’ laissez faire solutions to labor problems and the Marxist solution of class revolution.

He also rejected the class system by giving all Sikhs the last names Singh and Kaur.

When these ideas were rejected by the SDF at its 1888 Annual Conference in favor of a limitation of party support to candidates endorsing the notion of class war, these advocates of an ameliorative Labour Party set out on their own, abandoning the SDF to its own fate.

Since the 1960s, postnationalist scholars have rejected American exceptionalism, arguing that the United States had not broken from European history, and accordingly, the United States has retained class inequities, imperialism and war.