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In Balzer, Moulines, and Sneed (1987), the theory of verisimilitude is viewed as belonging to the statement view of theories (see Section 5.5. above). However, the very first definition of verisimilitude which can be seen as a part of the similarity approach was made in terms of non-linguistic entities using a primitive notion of similarity between possible worlds, rather than a notion of similarity between their linguistic representations.
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Kieseppä, I.A. (1996). The Structuralist Definitions of Verisimilitude. In: Truthlikeness for Multidimensional, Quantitative Cognitive Problems. Synthese Library, vol 254. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0550-9_6
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