Titlebook: Scientific Realism; A Critical Reapprais Nicholas Rescher Book 1987 D. Reidel Publishing Company 1987 realism

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The Roots of Objectivity, of our information — cannot be claimed to be the limits of . world. It is the very limitation of our knowledge of things — our recognition that reality extends beyond the horizons of what we can possibly know or even conjecture about — that betokens the mind-independence of the real.

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Schoolbook Science as a Basis for Realism,tened-up” popularized science rather than authentic, technical science at the frontier of research. This compromise position represented by “schoolbook science” provides for a viable form of science-indebted realism.

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,Evolution’s Role in the Success of Science,planation is not such, however, as to support the claim that “science has it right”. The critical fact is that nature must be “error tolerant” in order to provide for cognitive evolution to occur at all. And this means that we can account for the extraordinary success of natural science short of maintaining its actual correctness.

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Book 1987y unfold in the rather technical way currently in vogue, it has seemed to me that it would be useful to view these contemporary disputes against the background of such older epistemological issues as fallibilism, scepticism, relativism, and the traditional realism/idealism debate. This, then, is the

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978-90-277-2528-8D. Reidel Publishing Company 1987