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work_djx4w3obunbjvn3j4fxsfs5gp4	Sebastian Lutz	What Was the Syntax-Semantics Debate in the Philosophy of Science About?	2015	30	.pdf	application/pdf	13907	1210	64	syntactic approach, received view, logical empiricism, model theory, definitional equivalence in semantic approaches they are described by classes of model-theoretic structures, and the question is which is preferable. Besides relying on predicate logic, the Received View assumes that the observation terms are given a direct semantic interpretation, which, through the Thus an approach is syntactic if every theory is described by an interpreted set of sentences in higher order An approach is syntactic if and only if in the approach every theory is described by an equivalence class of sets of sentences of higher order logic, the two approaches" ( his and the syntactic one) given by the possibility of describing a set of sentences by its models and a structure by the sentences of As van Fraassen notes, his later approach to scientific theories and their relations to observations, constructive empiricism, does not rely on elementary statements.	./cache/work_djx4w3obunbjvn3j4fxsfs5gp4.pdf	./txt/work_djx4w3obunbjvn3j4fxsfs5gp4.txt