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Ideas of Bas C. van Fraassen, by Text
[American, b.1941, Professor at Princeton University.]
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1980
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The Scientific Image
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p.131
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An explanation is just descriptive information answering a particular question [Salmon]
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p.143
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To 'accept' a theory is not to believe it, but to believe it empirically adequate [Bird]
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p.145
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Why should the true explanation be one of the few we have actually thought of? [Bird]
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p.12
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p.95
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To accept a scientific theory, we only need to believe that it is empirically adequate
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p.202
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p.99
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Empiricists deny what is unobservable, and reject objective modality
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2002
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The Empirical Stance
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1.5
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p.14
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We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true
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1.5
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p.14
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12769
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Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values
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1.5
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p.16
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We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods
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1.5
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p.17
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Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise
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1.5
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p.17
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Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true?
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1.6
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p.18
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Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools
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