Theoretical framework

Central to that clarification is the concept of the theoretical framework, which is presented in connection with and as a modification of the concept, introduced by Rudolf Carnap, of the linguistic framework. The account proceeds from the fundamental insight that every theoretical questioning, every theoretical sentence, argument, every theory, etc., is intelligible and evaluable only if understood as situated within a theoretical framework. If this presupposition is not made, then everything remains undetermined: the meaning of a given sentence, its evaluation, etc. To every theoretical framework belong, among other things, the following constitutive moments: a language (with its syntax and its semantics), a logic, and a conceptuality, along with all of the components that constitute a theoretical apparatus. Failure to attend to this fundamental fact—or, as is most common, failure even to recognize it—is the source of countless catastrophic mistakes from which philosophy has suffered throughout its history and into the present.— Lorenz B. Puntel"In its various uses, the term “framework” connotes a specific difference or distinction between two sides or levels or aspects of a determinate item; the difference is between the framework and what the framework contains, presents, or enframes. Framework and content can be interrelated in either of two ways; there are therefore two partially distinct concepts of framework. The abstract or underdetermined concept is that of the framework taken independently of that for which it is a or the framework (e.g., a picture frame considered independently of any painting that it does or might enframe). The concrete or fully determinate concept is that of the framework as explicitly related to its content (i.e., to that for which it is a or the framework)." Puntel
== Rhizomata ==
Tradition; Concept; Reality; Intelligence; Conceptuality; Conceptual world; Context