Saatsi, Juha
(2015)
Historical inductions, Old and New.
[Preprint]
Abstract
I review prominent historical arguments against scientific realism to indicate how they display a systematic overshooting in the conclusions drawn from the historical evidence. The root of the overshooting can be located in some critical, undue presuppositions regarding realism. I will highlight these presuppositions in connection with both Laudan's 'Old induction' and Stanford's New Induction, and then delineate a minimal realist view that does without the problematic presuppositions.
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