 The label partial interpretation is more common in the literature to describe Carnap’s view that theoretical terms are interpreted by the axioms or postulates of a scientific theory (Suppe 1974: 86–95). The partial character of interpretation is retained in the present account since there is a range of admissible interpretations of the complete language \(L(V_o,V_t)\). This allows for the interpretation of theoretical terms to be strengthened by further postulates, just as Carnap demanded in his 1958 and 1961. To strengthen the interpretation of theoretical terms is to further constrain the range of admissible interpretations of \(L(V_o,V_t)\).