Intertheoretic relations are an important topic in the philosophy of science. However, since their classical discussion by Ernest Nagel, such relations have mostly been restricted to relations between pairs of theories in the natural sciences. This paper presents a case study of a new type of intertheoretic relation that is inspired by Montague’s analysis of the linguistic syntax-semantics relation. The paper develops a simple model of this relation. To motivate the adoption of our new model, we show that this model extends the scope of application of the Nagelian (or related) models and that it shares the epistemological advantages of the Nagelian model. The latter is achieved in a Bayesian framework.

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理论间归约、确认和蒙塔古的句法-语义关系

理论间关系是科学哲学中的一个重要课题。但是，自从欧内斯特·内格尔 (Ernest Nagel) 进行经典讨论以来，这种关系主要限于自然科学中成对理论之间的关系。本文介绍了一种新型理论间关系的案例研究，这种关系受到蒙塔古对语言句法-语义关系的分析的启发。本文开发了这种关系的简单模型。为了鼓励采用我们的新模型，我们表明该模型扩展了 Nagelian（或相关）模型的应用范围，并且它具有 Nagelian 模型的认识论优势。后者是在贝叶斯框架中实现的。