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Contrast, inference and scientific realism.

Abstract  The thesis of underdetermination presents a major obstacle to the epistemological claims of scientific realism. That thesis is regularly assumed in the philosophy of science, but is puzzlingly at odds with the actual history of science, in which empirically adequate theories are thin on...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 160; no. 2; pp. 249 - 268
Main Authors: Mark Day, George Botterill
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Jan2008
Subjects:
Realism
Inference (Logic)
Judgment (Logic)
Manipulative behavior
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