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A representational theory is a theory which includes representational hypotheses; and a representational hypothesis, in contrast to a merely phenomenological one, provides an interpretative explanation of the object it refers to. Such an explanation goes beyond the description of the outward relations between two sets of variables — the explanandum and the explanans — to supply a representation of the hypothesized inward mechanism which determines the working of the referent; see Bunge (1967b).
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Klein, E. (1998). Representational Theories and Theoretical Systems (I): Basic or General Theory and General-Class Theory. In: Economic Theories and their Relational Structures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377646_7
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