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FOIS
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Science aims to develop an accurate understanding of reality through a variety of rigorously empirical and formal methods. Ontologies are used to formalize the meaning of terms wit...
SYNTHESE
2011
12 years 12 months ago
2011
: The aim of this paper is to revisit the phlogiston theory to see what can be learned from it about the relationship between scientific realism, approximate truth and successful r...
SLOGICA
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Abstract. Scientific change has two important dimensions: conceptual change and structural change. In this paper, I argue that the existence of conceptual change brings serious dif...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Nancy Cartwright relies upon an inference pattern known as inference to the best causal explanation (IBCE) to support a limited form of entity realism, according to which we are wa...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
