In academic writing, how do you distinguish the similarities/differences between theoretical framework, theoretical lens, research backdrop, and research orientation? Do you use them interchangeably? Or otherwise?
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Article Structure-Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy*
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A theory of analogy must describe how the meaning of an analogy is derived from the meanings of its parts. In the structure-mapping theory, the interpretation rules are characterized as implicit rules for mapping knowledge about a base domain into a target domain. Two important features of the theory are (a) the rules depend only on syntactic properties of the knowledge representation, and not on the specific content of the domains; and (b) the theoretical framework allows analogies to be distinguished cleanly from literal similarity statements, applications of abstractions, and other kinds of comparisons. Two mapping principles are described: (a) Relations between objects, rather than attributes of objects, are mapped from base to target; and (b) The particular relations mapped are determined by systematicity, as defined by the existence of higher-order relations.
Other than "research backdrop" which I have never seen before, I use the other terms interchangeably.
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