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Constructive Empiricism and Logical Positivism: The Return of the Prodigal Son [PDF]

, 2023
Bas van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism (CE) has been much discussed. There is, however, a curious feature of van Fraassen’s writings that has been overlooked up until now.
van der Merwe, Ragnar
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Quranic Epistemology of Abdullah Darraz on His Critic of Morality: A Study of the Book Dustūr al-Akhlāq fī Al-Qur’ān

Al-Tahrir
This paper reveals descriptively the textual basis of Muhammad Abdullah Darraz’s thoughts as stated in his work Dustūr al-Akhlāq fī al-Qur’ān: Dirāsah Muqāranah li al-Akhlāq al-Nażāriyyāt fī al-Qur’ān.
Cholid Ma'arif, Amal Fathullah Zarkasyi, Kholila Mukaromah   +2 more
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Kuhn, Nominalism, and Empiricism

, 2022
In this paper I draw a connection between Kuhn and the empiricist legacy, specifically between his thesis of incommensurability, in particular in its later taxonomic form, and van Fraassen's constructive empiricism.

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Scientific Representation and the Semantic View of Theories [PDF]

, 2006
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Frigg, Roman, Roman FRIGG
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Common-Sense Realism and the Unimaginable Otherness of Science

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
Bas van Fraassen endorses both common-sense realism — the view, roughly, that the ordinary macroscopic objects that we take to exist actually do exist — and constructive empiricism — the view, roughly, that the aim of science is truth about the ...
Bradley Monton
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Fictions, Conditionals, and Stellar Astrophysics [PDF]

, 2013
This article argues in favour of an inferential role for fictions in scientific modelling. The argument proceeds by means of a detailed case study, namely models of the internal structure of stars in stellar astrophysics.
Suárez, Mauricio, Mauricio Suárez
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Gaan na die mier, kyk na sy weë en word wys: Metafoor of paradigma?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013
Go to the ant, consider her ways, and be wise. Metaphor or paradigm? This article takes as its point of departure two citations. The one is from Marshall and Zohar’s contention that the wave-particle dualism is more than a metaphor and the other is from ...
Johan Buitendag
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Speech performance in language teaching-learning: Culturally textual and non-textual landscapes of Toba Caldera Geosites

Studies in English Language and Education
The study described teachers’ speech performance using textual and non-textual elements in language teaching-learning. The linguistic element is the text of the language landscape of Toba Caldera Geosites.
Robert Sibarani, Mangatur Nababan, Wahyudi Wahyudi, Defri Elias Simatupang, Yessy Octavianna   +4 more
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Problem of Experience in Constructive Empiricism

, 2011
Van Fraassen’s distinction between observable and non-observable objects and his pragmatic conception of observation is presented and discussed. There is already huge literature where constructive empiricism is criticized or defended.
Leśniak, Piotr
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The Principle of Observability, the Stage of Empirical Weightlessness of a Theory (SEWT) and Constructive Empiricism (CE)

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2011
This work aims at analyzing the principle of observability (PO) from the formal point of view, making use of its explicit (ontological and epistemological) definitions.
Andrey N Pavlenko
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