Lutz, Sebastian (2015) What Was the Syntax-Semantics Debate in the Philosophy of Science About? [Preprint]
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Abstract
The debate between critics of syntactic and semantic approaches to the formalization of scientific theories has been going on for over 40 years. I review the debate in light of a recent exchange between Hans Halvorson, Clark Glymour, and Bas van Fraassen and argue that the only remaining disagreement concerns the alleged difference in the language dependence of syntactic and semantic approaches. This difference turns out to be illusory.
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| Keywords: | semantic approach, Suppes predicate, constructive empiricism, syntactic approach, received view, logical empiricism, model theory, definitional equivalence | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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| Depositing User: | Sebastian Lutz | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2015 18:41 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 26 Feb 2015 18:41 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 11346 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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| Date: | February 2015 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11346 |
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