 A further qualification in addition to the one above regarding American Pragmatism is in order. The Pragmatic View has important precursors in the historicist or “world view” perspectives of Feyerabend, Hanson, Kuhn, and Toulmin, which were an influential set of critiques of the Syntactic View utterly distinct from the Semantic View. This philosophical tradition focused on themes such as meaning change and incommensurability of terms across world views (e.g., paradigms), scientific change (e.g., revolutionary: Kuhn 1970; evolutionary: Toulmin 1972), the interweaving of context of discovery and context of justification, and scientific rationality (Preston 2012; Bird 2013; Swoyer 2014). The historicists also opposed the idea that theories can secure meaning and empirical support from a theory-neutral and purely observational source, as the Syntactic View had insisted on with its strong distinction between theoretical and observational vocabularies (cf. Galison 1988). Kuhn’s paradigms or, more precisely, “disciplinary matrices” even had an internal anatomy with four components: (i) laws or symbolic generalizations, (ii) ontological assumptions, (iii) values, and (iv) exemplars (Kuhn 1970, postscript; Godfrey-Smith 2003; Hacking 2012). This work was concerned more with theory change than with theory structure and had fewer conceptual resources from sociology of science and history of science than contemporary Pragmatic View work. Moreover, paradigms never quite caught on the way analyses of models and modeling have. Even so, this work did much to convince later scholars, including many of the Pragmatic View, of certain weaknesses in understanding theories as deductive axiomatic structures.