Fraassen on Observation Language - Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments

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Observation language: a language that does not use any terms of a theory and therefore would be neutral, is taken to be impossible by most authors. See also experiments, theoretical terms, theoretical entities, theories, descriptions. _____________ 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.

Fraassen, Bas Books on Amazon	Observation Language	I 56 Phenomenon / Fraassen: are preserved by being shown to be fragments of a larger unit - Vsobservation language: you can not describe phenomena apart from the rest of the world _____________ 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.	Fr I B. van Fraassen The Scientific Image Oxford 1980

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