Theory and Fact

Vocabulary for empirical world: reality, nature, experience, phenomena, fact, things,
thing-happening

Vocabulary for conceptualization: ideation, abstraction, concept, conception, category,
construct

Vocabulary for concept formation: operationalization, operational definition, working
definition, epistemic definition, rules of interpretation, rules of procedure - deals
with rules for specifying empirical indicator to collect and catalogue and manipulate
experential data

Vocabulary for fundamental measurement: identification of concept properties, definitional
specification of systemic or logical relationship among properties, denoting measures
so as to preserve isomorphic defined systemic relationship among properties and logic of
procedures used in measurment --strict versus loose interpretation of empiricism 

Vocabulary of statements:  rules of correspondence, dispositional, and constitutive
definitions: propositions, hypotheses, null hypothesis; types of statements
(scope of knowledge claims)--empirical generalizations, idiographic versus nomothetic,
generalizing versus existential (specific), law.

Theory--sets of statements, rules for generating statements (induction, deduction,
retroduction) logical domain, abstraction, and observation-rooted--grand theory,
middle range theory, explanation versus understanding,  

Paradigms-normal science versus paradigm revolutions