WebbTheoreticity, Underdetermination, and the Disregard for Bizarre Scientific Hypotheses. André Kukla - 2001 - Philosophy of Science 68 (1):21-35. Comments on a Criterion of Theoreticity. David Pearce - 1981 - Synthese 48 (1):77 - 86. On the Definition of “Religion”. Webb1 feb. 2013 · Theoreticity is a property that is commonly applied to both expressions in the language of science and the corresponding referents and concepts. Objects, ...

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Webbtheoreticity is that scientists do routinely and uniformly ignore certain propositional structures that seem to have a good measure of the empirical virtues. Let us call this … WebbThe importance of theoreticity has also been acknowledged by some who favour the rival model-theoretic approach to reconstruction [e.g. Niiniluoto 1980]. However, in spite of the prominence given to theoreticity and in spite of the fact that it is intuitively clear what theoreticity is, it is generally accepted that the attempts made graef cm 502

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Webbtheoreticity, or a lower degree of observationality. What appears defensible is that there is some point on the theory/observation continuum at which most of the currently accepted assertions beyond it are false, but this point may not be precisely where the theory/observation distinction is usually drawn. Webb7 maj 2024 · Traditionally, theoreticity used to be defined in terms of non-observability. In this view, a thing (an entity or kind) is theoretical iff it is not observable; and a thing is observable if it can be perceived directly. There are, nevertheless, compelling arguments that show that the traditional way of defining theoreticality is not satisfactory. Webb31 maj 2007 · Download Citation On a New Definition of Theoreticity A simple and precise definition is offered of “term t of theory T being T-theoretical” which can be applied to any formalized theory. graef cm503