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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"approximate truth"”.
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The Fertility of Theories
… strand of McMullin's argument, a notion of the approximate truth or of the verisimilitude of theories is required. Inter alia it is argued that a distinction must be made between the approximate truth of a scientific theory and that of a simple assertion or a simple narrative. The concepts of …
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Scientific realism vs. scientific antirealism
… the view that successful theories are typically approximately true and that their key terms typically refer. The no-miracle argument for the view holds that approximate truth and reference provide the best explanation of the success of science. I try to defend scientific realism from the …
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The Tension Between Falsificationism and Realism: a Critical Examination of a Problem in the Philosophy of Karl Popper
… of its failure to incorporate a notion of approximate truth. Boyd's version of realism is also shown to be unsatisfactory due to its ascription of absolute approximate truth to scientific theories. Hacking's entity realism, while consistent with falsificationism in many respects, is also …
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Essays in cooperation and repeated games
… from the agents. The second chapter proves that approximately Pareto efficient outcomes can be sustained in a broad class of games with imperfect public monitoring and Markov adverse selection when players are patient. Consider a game in which one player's utility evolves according to an …
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On Inter-Theoretic Relations and Scientific Realism
This thesis addresses three contemporary debates in the philosophy of science: namely, scientific realism, emergence, and theoretical equivalence. The thesis brings logico-semantic tools of the analytic tradition—about syntactic and semantic construals of theories, and about extensions and …