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Against Instrumentalism: Realism and the Task of Science,ctical device — a mere instrument for prediction and control that has no bearing on describing “the nature of things”. This sort of view would ride roughshed over the descriptive aims of the scientific enterprise. (2) For while we must accept a fallibilistic view of science, the fact remains that th

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Schoolbook Science as a Basis for Realism, in their generality and precision. Ordinary-life “knowledge”, on the other hand, manages to gain security by reducing its definiteness or informativeness. In consequence, however, the sort of “understanding” it provides is not altogether satisfactory. There are problems on both sides. Scientific kn

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Disconnecting their Applicative Success from the Truth of Scientific Theories,) For their actual truth is not the . explanation of the successful application of our scientific theories. An . the currently efficacious from still superior, but not yet projected, theories affords an even better and more realistic explanation. (3) The successful application of a scientific theory

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The Roots of Objectivity,pth whose bottom we cannot possibly plumb. (3) To have a correct conception of something we must have . right. And this is something we generally cannot ascertain, if only because we cannot say what is really important before the end of the proverbial day. Accordingly, our conceptions of real things

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Intimations of Idealism,ate any objective claims whatsoever. Its justification rests initially on this strictly functional basis. (2) Of course, once we make this initial assumptive leap we can do much better. We can . to account for how the acquisition of scientific information of the real is possible for us. But this can

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Problems of Scientific Realism, in historical perspective, it becomes clear that there is no adequate justification for thinking that natural science as we now have it is actually correct. (3) Nor does it seem warranted to suppose that a . juncture will be reached when the science of the day correctly characterizes physical reality.

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Scientific Progress as Nonconvergent,nding. (4) There is no warrant for adopting a theory of convergence that sees the innovations of theorizing science as being of constantly diminishing scope. Neither can a scientific realism rely on present science, nor are its difficulties resolved by looking to “the long run”.