Park, Seungbae (2014) A Pessimistic Induction against Scientific Antirealism.

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There are nine antirealist explanations of the success of science in the literature. I raise difficulties against all of them except the latest one, and then construct a pessimistic induction that the latest one will turn out to be problematic because its eight forerunners turned out to be problematic. This pessimistic induction is on a par with the traditional pessimistic induction that successful present scientific theories will be revealed to be false because successful past scientific theories were revealed to be false.

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Park, Seungbae
Keywords:	Pessimistic Induction, Scientific Antirealism, Success of Science
Subjects:	General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism
Depositing User:	Dr. Seungbae Park
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2019 01:28
Last Modified:	21 Jan 2019 01:28
Item ID:	15611
Subjects:	General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism
Date:	2014
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15611

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