Confirmation, empirical progress, and truth approximation /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
©2005.
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| Series: | Essays in debate with Theo Kuipers ; Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities,
1 83 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=160113 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; The Threefold Evaluation of Theories: A Synopsis of From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism. On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation (2000); CONFIRMATION AND THE HD METHOD; EMPIRICAL PROGRESS BY ABDUCTION AND INDUCTION; TRUTH APPROXIMATION BY ABDUCTION; TRUTH APPROXIMATION BY EMPIRICAL AND NONEMPIRICAL MEANS; TRUTHLIKENESS AND UPDATING; REFINED TRUTH APPROXIMATION; REALISM AND METAPHORS; Bibliography of Theo A.F. Kuipers; Index of Names.