ABSTRACT
Science deals only with the description of structural properties of objects. Whether people perceive the world in terms of structure or not, the concern for such an entity is reflected in scientists’ tools and methods of investigation. On the other hand, structure is an ill-defined term because scientists seem to struggle in reaching a consensus on what precisely a structure is. In many cases structure is identified as, or by analogy with, physical structure, such as the structures of DNA, a salt crystal, a building, and the like. The classical account of the structure of scientific theory is referred to as the received view. The received view is the philosophical theory that grew out of the early twentieth-century logical positivism of the Vienna Circle, and is sometimes taken as indicating logical empiricism, which is the post-Second World War descendant of logical positivism.
