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Empirical Adequacy in the Received View

Lutz, Sebastian (2013) Empirical Adequacy in the Received View. In: [2012] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 23rd Biennial Mtg (San Diego, CA) > PSA 2012 Symposia.

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    Abstract

    I show that the central notion of Constructive Empiricism, empirical adequacy, can be expressed syntactically and specifically in the Received View of the logical empiricists. The formalization shows that the Received View is superior to Constructive Empiricism in the treatment of theories involving unobservable objects or functions from observable to unobservable objects. It also suggests a formalization of ‘full empirical informativeness’ in Constructive Empiricism.

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    Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
    Keywords: empirical adequacy; Received View; Constructive Empiricism; embedding; empirical substructure; appearances; observations
    Subjects: General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism
    General Issues > Structure of Theories
    General Issues > Theory/Observation
    Conferences and Volumes: [2012] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 23rd Biennial Mtg (San Diego, CA) > PSA 2012 Symposia
    Depositing User: Sebastian Lutz
    Date Deposited: 08 Jul 2013 06:23
    Last Modified: 08 Jul 2013 06:23
    Item ID: 9869
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9869

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