From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation

From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation / by Theo A.F. Kuipers.

Surprisingly, modified versions of the confirmation theory (Carnap and Hempel) and truth approximation theory (Popper) turn out to be smoothly sythesizable. The glue between the two appears to be the instrumentalist methodology, rather than that of the falsificationalist. The instrumentalist methodo...

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Main Author: Kuipers, Theo A.F (Author)
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
Edition:1st ed. 2000.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 287
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Epistemology.
Modern philosophy.
Logic.
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