Economics Dictionary of ArgumentsHome
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| Foundation: Foundation in logic and philosophy of science is the idea that assertions must ultimately be based in empiricism. Even in formalized statements, it must ultimately be possible to specify the meaning of the components or expressions by reference to something in the world. See also Formalism, Formalization, Logic, Everyday language, Meaning, Reference._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Gerhard Schurz on Foundation - Dictionary of Arguments
I 187 Def Empirically grounded/Theory/Schurz: A theory is empirically grounded if its basal theories have only empirical terms as pre-theoretical terms. Otherwise they would be without empirical assignment and therefore not empirically significant. >Evidence, >Observation, >Observation language, >Theories, >Theoretical terms/Schurz, >Concepts/Schurz. Structuralist philosophy of science/structuralism/Schurz: Structuralism rejects the foundation requirement and instead takes a coherentist position, according to which the terms of the basal theories of a theory network are all theoretical in nature, since there are no more pre-theories to explain them. SchurzVs: This is circular. I 188 Structuralism: thesis: because all observation is theory-laden, there are no "genuinely empirical" concepts. >Theory-ladenness._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Schu I G. Schurz Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie Darmstadt 2006 |
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