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===Pragmatic view===
The pragmatic view rejects a purely formal characterization of scientific theories entirely, and supposes that a theory necessarily consists of sentences, models, problems, standards, skills, practices, including such things as analogies, metaphors, and natural kinds, with its full characterization necessarily including elements that cannot be formalized.[[CiteRef::Mormann(2008)]][[CiteRef::Winther (2015)]] Proponents of the pragmatic view include [[Nancy Cartwright]], [[Ian Hacking]], [[Phillip Kitcher]], and [[Helen Longino]].
|History=[[Theory (Barseghyan-2015)|The original definition ]] of '''theory''' was proposed by Barseghyan in 2015. It defined a theory as any set of propositions that attempt to describe something.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)]] As such, this definition excluded normative propositions. It In early 2017, it was eventually replaced by [[Theory (Sebastien-2015)|the definition ]] suggested by Sebastien in 2016.
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