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Starting with an intuitive picture of what kind of thing a theory is, we work our way towards a more sharply defined, but at the same time more restricted, mathematical notion, which can be investigated with standard tools of mathematical logic. “Reality” is introduced as a concept which plays a role in organizing the relation between sets of different theoretical pictures.
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Hoekzema, D.J. (1993). The construction of physical reality. In: The Quantum Labyrinth. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 51. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1777-7_4
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