Delineating the internal and external features of theories as well as regarding them seperately as potential indicators of the truth of a theory was only an start up suggestion. The stock of information can be divided into two categories to evaluate a theory, depending on the source of information. There is the information from the theories themselves, and the information from the world. To justify a theory, you would need a combination of thoery-to-theory relations and theory-to world relations. These conceptions are needed for thinking about evidence.
I would like to have a better idea of what theory to theory relations and theory to world relations look like as I am not sure what they really mean.
I would use this in my teaching and learning by ensuring that my students are able to see theories in relation to other theories as well as in relation to the world we live in.
Learning artifacts
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/science-theory-observation/
file:///C:/Users/user_PC/Downloads/chapter_7_readiing_the_book_of_nature_peter_kosso.pdf
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/what-thomas-kuhn-really-thought-about-scientific-truth/
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