Park, Seungbae (2019) Surrealism Is Not an Alternative to Scientific Realism. [Preprint]

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Surrealism holds that observables behave as if T were true, whereas scientific realism holds that T is true. Surrealism and scientific realism give different explanations of why T is empirically adequate. According to surrealism, T is empirically adequate because observables behave as if it were true. According to scientific realism, T is empirically adequate because it is true. I argue that the surrealist explanation merely clarifies the concept of empirical adequacy, whereas the realist explanation makes an inductive inference about T. Therefore, the surrealist explanation is a conceptual one, whereas the realist explanation is an empirical one, and the former is not an alternative to the latter.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Park, Seungbae
Keywords:	Empirical Adequacy, Observables, Scientific Realism, Surrealism, Truth
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science
Depositing User:	Dr. Seungbae Park
Date Deposited:	19 Sep 2019 17:09
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2019 17:09
Item ID:	16436
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science
Date:	2019
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16436

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