Predictive success, partial truth and Duhemian realism.
According to a defense of scientific realism known as the 'divide et impera move', mature scientific theories enjoying predictive success are partially true. This paper investigates a paradigmatic historical case: the prediction, based on Fresnel's wave theory of light, that a bright spot should fig...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 194; no. 9; pp. 3245 - 3266 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2017
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