Scientific conclusions need not be accurate, justified, or believed by their authors.

We argue that the main results of scientific papers may appropriately be published even if they are false, unjustified, and not believed to be true or justified by their author. To defend this claim we draw upon the literature studying the norms of assertion, and consider how they would apply if one...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 199; no. 3/4; pp. 8187 - 8204
Autores principales: Dang, Haixin, Bright, Liam Kofi
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2021
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