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en-wikipedia-org-5336		Semantic view of theories - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	677	81	56	Semantic view of theories Wikipedia The semantic view of theories is a position in the philosophy of science that holds that a scientific theory can be identified with a collection of models. The semantic view of theories was originally proposed by Patrick Suppes in "A Comparison of the Meaning and Uses of Models in Mathematics and the Empirical Sciences"[1] as a reaction against the received view of theories popular among the logical positivists. Many varieties of the semantic view propose identifying theories with a class of set-theoretic models in the Tarskian sense,[2] while others specify models in the mathematical language stipulated by the field of which the theory is a member.[3] syntactic views of theories[edit] On the contrast between syntactic and semantic views, Bas van Fraassen writes: In this same book, van Fraassen, a key founder of the semantic view of theories, critiques the syntactic view in very strong terms: "The Semantic View of Theories: Models and Misconceptions"	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5336.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5336.txt