Martínez-Ordaz, María del Rosario (2020) The ignorance behind inconsistency toleration. [Preprint]
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Inconsistency toleration is the phenomenon of working with inconsistent information without threatening one's rationality. Here I address the role that ignorance plays for the tolerance of contradictions in the empirical sciences. In particular, I contend that there are two types of ignorance that, when present, can make epistemic agents to be rationally inclined to tolerate a contradiction. The first is factual ignorance, understood as temporary undecidability of the truth values of the conflicting propositions. The second is what I call “ignorance of theoretical structure", which is lack of knowledge of relevant inference patterns within a specific theory. I argue that these two types of ignorance can be explanatory of the scientists' rational disposition to be tolerant towards contradictions, and I illustrate this with a case study from neutrino physics.
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| Keywords: | Inconsistency toleration, factual ignorance, ignorance of theoretical structure, measurement of solar neutrinos' flux. | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > Theory/Observation General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2021 03:43 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2021 03:43 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 19672 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > Theory/Observation General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Date: | 2020 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19672 |
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