The paper examines Dickson’s (1999) question how it is possible to hold the theory-laden observation thesis and, at the same time, to uphold the thesis of the empirical equivalence of theories. After the elucidation of several semantic distinctions we propose the definitions of empirical equivalence of expressions and theories, respectively. In the next step, we scrutinize the theory-ladenness thesis more closely and propose three distinct, but related specifications of it. Finally, we reconsider the two theses in question order to show that they could be interpreted as fully compatible.
The author provides a set of thesis and sub thesis as the pillars of conceptual decisions about language structures within the linguistic consultancy. The fundamental thesis is that the contemporary Standard Slovak is a natural language, i.e. a language that gets into the state of the evolutional return to the 'folk' language. This thesis is the basis of the analysis of the structures in favour of the linguistic consultancy.
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