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Two things strike me in contemporary discussions about theoreticity. First, in those studies of individual theories known to me, the number of theoretical terms is the same, namely two [14, 16]. Second, in all the abstract treatments of theoreticity, the theoretical terms are indexed from r to n (r < n). Are there always only two theoretical terms? If not, what happens when the theoretical vocabulary gets largs, is it simply a matter of letting an index run up to n? I think the answer to both questions is “no”.
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Cooke, R.M. (1981). Mystical Realism. In: Hartkämper, A., Schmidt, HJ. (eds) Structure and Approximation in Physical Theories. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4109-3_12
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