The “Positive Argument” for Constructive Empiricism and Inference to the Best Explanation
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DOI: 10.1007/s10838-018-9414-3
Abstract: In this paper, I argue that the “positive argument” for Constructive Empiricism (CE), according to which CE “makes better sense of science, and of scientific activity, than realism does” (van Fraassen in The scientific image,… read more here.
Keywords: argument constructive; best explanation; inference best; argument ... See more keywords