Titlebook: Bas van Fraassen’s Approach to Representation and Models in Science; Wenceslao J. Gonzalez Book 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordr

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Joseph Mede and the Cambridge Platonistsic model . a successful representation of its target . from what makes . a representation of . and not of some other different target T’. van Fraassen maintains that . (i.e.: a particular sort of isomorphism which relates structures) gives the answer to the first question while the user’s decision t

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0247-6re is the set of relations it imposes on these quantities. There is an important, indeed fundamental, demand in scientific practice that those quantities be clearly and feasibly related to measurement procedures. The scientific episodes examined include Galileo’s measurement of the force of the vacu

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The Aesthetics of Process and Human Lifees and law. It is argued that evidence is a trans-disciplinary notion whose distinctive trait is its capacity to provide a link between some body of information and some hypothesis such information supports or negates. As such, evidence is strictly associated with relevance, and like relevance it is

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The Aesthetics of Process and Human Lifeg logic to the study of abduction. Certainly van Fraassen seems to reject abduction, but many logicians have considered abduction as a prototype of scientific inference, and, at the last resort, this critical position is more about the so called inference to the best explanation than about abduction

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The Aesthetics of Process and Human Lifeabove” is the perspective in which we view measurements from the point of view of the finished theory aiming to examine how the measurement is related to the theory. “From within” is the perspective in which we see measurement as a means for the development of the theory. van Fraassen warns us that

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98986-0 is, first, to see his contribution to this framework and, secondly, what objections or criticism he is capable of. The analysis focuses, in this sense, in exposing the characterization that provides the explanation as a pragmatic virtue to determine if, indeed, the model proposed by van Fraassen, t