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|Current View=== Open Questions ==
• The TSC states that the choice of relevant facts is guided by our existing theories. Is it also the case that questions/problems in science become relevant because of existing theories? (Nick Overgaard, Hakob Barseghyan, 2016)
• Is it possible for a community to say that they do not accept a theory, but in reality they do? In other words, what is the status of ‘tacit knowledge’ in the TSC? Can we find historical cases of situations like this? (Jaqueline Sereda, 2016)
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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=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 was eventually replaced by the definition suggested by Sebastien in 2016.
|Related Topics=Method, Scientific Mosaic
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