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Though the question of the nature of theoretical terms has been the subject of much recent discussion in the philosophy of science, little of that discussion has taken account of what gave rise to the issue in the first place. The notion of theoretical term first became of relevance to the philosophy of science when it was realized that a number of scientific expressions would apparently not be meaningful according to a widely held (logical empiricist) conception of meaningfulness. On this conception, in order for an utterance to be meaningful, either its non-logical constituents must themselves refer to entities which are directly observable, or they must be definable in other terms, the referents of which are directly observable. Thus such scientific terms as "atom" and "electron", and "temperature" and "magnetic", would all appear to be meaningless, since their referents are seemingly unobservable. This state of affairs constitutes a major problem for the logical empiricists' conception of meaningfulness (or, alternatively, for their conception of science). And it is in the context of this problem that the notion of theoretical term obtained its first characterization, namely, a

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Author

Craig Dil Worth

Publisher

Springer; Springer-Verlag; Reidel; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1876-2514)

Published

1984

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)