Theory
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Theory is a set of propositions that attempt to describe or prescribe something. Theories can be descriptive (e.g. natural, social, and formal science) or normative (e.g. methodology, ethics, and axiology). Theories can consist of thousands of interconnected propositions or, in an extreme, of one single proposition.
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Prehistory
Prehistory here
History
Current View
Descriptive and Normative
Open Questions
• Question 1
• Question 2
Related Articles
References
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- a b c Halvorson, Hans. (2012) What Scientific Theories Could not be. Philosophy of Science 79 (2), 183-206.
- ^ Frigg, Roman. (2006) Scientific Representation and the Semantic View of Theories. Theoria 55, 49-65.
- ^ Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.