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

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.
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2000.
Series:	Synthese library ; 287.
Subjects:	Philosophy (General) Genetic epistemology. Logic. Philosophy, Modern. Science > Philosophy. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book