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Up to this point I have been concerned with the formal properties of scientific systems. This has included syntactical considerations related to the structure of scientific systems and the general problem of what science talked about. Science was viewed as a language talking about physical reality and its laws as propositions of a certain sort. To the extent that we were involved in the relation between science and what it was about the problem was also semantic, but nothing was demonstrated about the nature of what it talked about. We were concerned only to support the argument that it did talk about something called ‘physical nature’ and that what it said about it purported to be true. Our concern now is with details.
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Kattsoff, L.O. (1957). The Vocabulary of Physical Science. In: Physical Science and Physical Reality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6048-5_12
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