Davidson's strategy is to embed the formal structure for a theory of meaning (the structure he finds in a Tarskian truth theory) within a more general theory of interpretation the broad outlines of which he draws from Quine's discussion in Word and Object (first published in 1960).
The use of the relation of satisfaction, or being-a-model-of, between a structure and a theory (or a sentence) can be traced to the book Wissenschaftslehre (1837; Theory of Science) by Bernhard Bolzano, a Bohemian theologian and mathematician, and, in a more concrete context, to the introduction of models of non-Euclidean geometries about that time.
Jensen and Meckling (1976) 90 Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure Developed a theory for firms' ownership drawing on agency theory.
These are very different senses of 'model' from that in model theory: the 'model' of the phenomenon or the system is not a structure but a theory, often in a formal language.
The interest of Locke's account lies in the way he combines the structure of a theory of first occupancy with an account of the substantive moral significance of labor.
Logicians are often interested in displaying the underlying logical structure of a theory, physical or mathematical, and in exploring whether or not there are alternatives, usually by changing the underlying logical principles.
On one approach, the significance of space-time symmetries is captured by considering the structure of a theory through transformations on its models, those models consisting of differentiable manifolds endowed with various geometric objects and relations (see Anderson, 1967, and Norton, 1989).
American sociologist Talcott Parsons elaborated on the work of Durkheim and Radcliffe-Brown by using their insights on social structure to formulate a theory that was valid for large and complex societies.
He offers a natural law theory, and, like other such theories, its basic structure consists of a theory of the good and a theory of law.
Pulselli RM, Simoncini E, Tiezzi E: Self-organization in dissipative structures: a thermodynamic theory for the emergence of prebiotic cells and their epigenetic evolution.
It was found that, for a selected thick sandwich structure, a cubic layerwise theory provided a set of results 27% less accurate than the linear one.
