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TRUTH, LAWS AND THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
v. 34 n. 1 (2011), Artigos
v. 34 n. 1 (2011)

TRUTH, LAWS AND THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE

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Publicado 2015-11-29
Mauro Dorato
Department of Philosophy/University of Rome 3
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3468-1644
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Truth. Laws. Progress. Commensurability.

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DORATO, Mauro. TRUTH, LAWS AND THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. Manuscrito: Revista Internacional de Filosofia, Campinas, SP, v. 34, n. 1, p. 185–205, 2015. Disponível em: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/manuscrito/article/view/8642016. Acesso em: 21 jul. 2024.
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In this paper I analyze the difficult question of the truth of mature scientific theories by tackling the problem of the truth of laws. After introducing the main philosophical positions in the field of scientific realism, I discuss and then counter the two main arguments against realism, namely the pessimistic metainduction and the abstract and idealized character of scientific laws. I conclude by defending the view that well-confirmed physical theories are true only relatively to certain values of the variables that appear in the laws.
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