id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_fymfvwsjcveb7li2pnkn6tflia Hans Halvorson What Scientific Theories Could Not Be* 2012 22 .pdf application/pdf 10194 867 66 According to the semantic view of scientific theories, theories are classes of models. alternative semantic view of theories, according to which a theory is a class of models. consequences of the the semantic view of theories in the philosophy of the particular sciences. The semantic view of theories has trickled down into the consciousness of the next generation of philosophers of science. claimed that the semantic view of theories makes a difference for some other philosophical Model isomorphism criterion for theoretical equivalence: If theories T and T ′ are According to the semantic view, a theory is a class of models. As explicated by Giere, Suppe, and van Fraassen, a theory is a class of models plus a theoretical the semantic view identifies theories with sets of models. of a theory in a particular language (syntax) and a single class of models (semantics). ./cache/work_fymfvwsjcveb7li2pnkn6tflia.pdf ./txt/work_fymfvwsjcveb7li2pnkn6tflia.txt