 The Pragmatic View recognizes that a number of assumptions about scientific theory seem to be shared by the Syntactic and Semantic Views. Both perspectives agree, very roughly, that theory is (1) explicit, (2) mathematical, (3) abstract, (4) systematic, (5) readily individualizable, (6) distinct from data and experiment, and (7) highly explanatory and predictive (see Flyvbjerg 2001, 38–39; cf. Dreyfus 1986). The Pragmatic View imagines the structure of scientific theories rather differently, arguing for a variety of theses: