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Received view of theories
Overview
The received view of theories is a position in the philosophy of science that identifies a scientific theory with a set of propositions which are considered to be linguistic objects, such as axioms. Frederick Suppe describes the position of the received view by saying that it identifies scientific theories with "axiomatic calculi in which theoretical terms are given a partial observation interpretation by mean of correspondence rules." The received view is generally associated with the logical empiricists.
Recently, the received view of theories has been displaced by the semantic view of theories as the dominant position in theory formulation in the philosophy of science.
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Perception, partly pure _a priori_, as it forms the basis of mathematics, partly empirical _a posteriori_, as it forms the basis of all the other sciences, is the source of all truth and the foundation of all science. (Logic alone is to be excepted, which is not founded upon perception but yet upon _direct_ knowledge by the reason of its own laws.) Not the demonstrated judgments nor their demonstrations, but…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
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Whether the logical, as against the ontological, theory be true or false, it can hardly be fruitfully discussed without a preliminary apprehension of it as a logical conception.
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
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TRENDELENBURG, A.: view of judgment, 147. TRUTH: criterion of, 84; Bosanquet's conception of, 105; popular criterion of, 105 ff.; and purpose, Study XI; representational _versus_ teleological view of, 341 ff.; criterion of, 361 ff.; (see Objectivity, Validity). UEBERWEG: view of judgment, 147. UNIFORMITY: of nature, 206. UNITY: of the world, 207. UNIVERSAL: first and second according to Lotze, 56, 59, 69; ideas as…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
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Related ideas
- Logical positivism
- Scientific theory
- Philosophy of science
- Axiom
- Semantic view of theories
- Frederick Suppe
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