theory vs view

theory

noun
  • A hypothesis or conjecture. 

  • A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc. 

  • A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs. 

  • A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables). 

  • A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate. 

  • The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice. 

view

noun
  • An intention or prospect. 

  • A wake. 

  • The act of seeing or looking at something. 

  • A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases. 

  • A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory. 

  • An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user. 

  • Something to look at, such as scenery. 

  • The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with 

  • The range of vision. 

  • A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. 

  • A point of view. 

  • A mental image. 

verb
  • To regard in a stated way. 

  • To look at. 

How often have the words theory and view occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )