Miraculous Success? Inconsistency and Untruth in Kirchhoff’s Diffraction Theory.
Kirchhoff’s diffraction theory is introduced as a new case study in the realism debate. The theory is extremely successful despite being both inconsistent and not even approximately true. Some habitual realist proclamations simply cannot be maintained in the face of Kirchhoff’s theory, as the realis...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 29 - 47 |
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University of Chicago Press
Mar2011
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