On Sun, 12 Nov 1995, Andrew Moreno wrote:
> I think the people reading a description of a theory after the original
> people formulated the theory usually have a different meaning of the words
> describing the theory so that the theory would be useless to the new
> readers, or at least useful to them in ways that the theory originators
> didn't intend.
Thanks. This states, much more clearly, what I was trying to say.
Michael McMaster's comment that theories have to be evaluated _apart_ from
their generating context then functions as a kind of "promotion test".
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