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- W2559050787 abstract "This essay discusses the difficulties involved in legitimating a realist inter- pretation of the way scientific theories are formed, as well as of these theories themselves. First, I want to offer a sketch of the peculiarities of science and of the possibilities for interpreting it in a realist or antirealist way. I shall also examine at length two arguments in favour of scientific-theoretical realism made in the course of recent discussions. 1 Finally, a suggestion made by H. Sankey for an understanding of this argumentation will be considered. I. What constitutes the proximity between science and reality? It is a fact that the majority of scientists - both natural scientists and social scientists (with the notable exception of scholars of the formal sciences, i.e. mathe- matics and logic) - are motivated in their scientific practice and the theory formation it entails by basic assumptions that are realist in character: they make their efforts trusting that on the basis of these efforts, it is possible to understand and to describe reality itself or its constituent parts correctly. Thus, separate fields of scientific enquiry are delimited on the basis of separate aspects of reality (inorganic and organic nature, economic life etc.). Once theories have been developed, these aspects of reality will then be taken to constitute the area of validity for these respective fields of scientific enquiry, and the areas in which they must prove themselves. In the investigation of each of these fields, further empirical methods are employed and generalizations are constructed based on cases observed in reality." @default.
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- W2559050787 title "THE SUCCESSES OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC-THEORETICAL REALISM: A LESS THAN DIRECT CONNECTION" @default.
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