To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is actual and observable.... It must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise.
Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will be "Yes"… - Bas Van Fraassen
Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will be "Yes"…
- Bas Van Fraassen
To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is actual and o… - Bas Van Fraassen
To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is actual and o…
Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as iss… - Bas Van Fraassen
Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as iss…
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