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- adverb Before taking any
theoretical considerations into account.
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Examples
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Yet that is not how we are pretheoretically inclined to view them (van Roojen 1996).
Boys in White Suits 2009
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Concepts, pretheoretically, are the constituents of thoughts.
Concepts Margolis, Eric 2006
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Rosen's claim derives some of its plausibility from the fact that he uses examples, such as the funny and the constitutional, where our pre-theoretical attachment to a realist view is very weak: it may be that the judgement-dependence of the funny doesn't undermine our sense of the objectivity of humour simply because the level of objectivity we pretheoretically expect of comedy is quite low.
Realism Miller, Alexander 2005
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Few armchair epistemologists say that "whatever it is we pretheoretically believe" amounts to knowledge.
Naturalized Epistemology Feldman, Richard 2001
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