Interestingly, while critiquing the Syntactic and Semantic Views on most matters, the Pragmatic View of Models construed theory, the process of theorizing, and the structure of scientific theories, according to terms set by the two earlier views.
Sundry religionists, including those of a philosophical bent like the classicist J.B. Mayor, intuitionists like William Whewell, and idealists like Green, F.H. Bradley, Bernard Bosanquet and D.G. Ritchie combined to attack its atomism, crude materialism, narrowly construed theory of motivation, and lack of appreciation of the spiritual dimension of the human condition.
Kellert's position hangs partly on how we construe theories.
Accordingly, there must be something wrong with construing legal theories as mere semantic accounts of when the word "law" applies.
The syntactic view of theories, which is an integral part of the logical positivist picture of science, construes a theory as a set of sentences in an axiomatized system of first order logic.
Herder's path to this conclusion is not direct, however, and just what sense or senses of truth he has in mind is difficult to pin down, so we will have to look at his classification of the arts in some detail to see how to construe his theory.
To show that set theory is problematic, Skolem runs through a number of different ways of interpreting set theory naive set theory, axiomatized set theory construed proof-theoretically, axiomatized set theory construed algebraically, etc.—and he argues that each of these understandings of set theory is inadequate for foundational purposes.
Indeed, we could then choose to construe theories as sets of propositions and treat all talk of sentences as outside the bounds of an account of ontological commitment proper.
It was not until the last few decades that the philosophically salient features of the Aristotelian rhetoric were rediscovered: in construing a general theory of the persuasive, Aristotle applies numerous concepts and arguments that are also treated in his logical, ethical, and psychological writings.
Depending on how this special role is construed, these theories may be more fruitfully classified as versions of weak foundationalism than as pure coherence theories.
