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Da Costa and French explore the consequences of adopting a pragmatic notion of truth in the philosophy of science--in other words, accepting a theory as valid when it may only be partially true rather than wholly true. Their framework sheds new light on issues dealing with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development.

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Science and Partial Truth A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
      Publication Date: 11/20/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780195156515, 978-0195156515
      ISBN10: 019515651X

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      Book Synopsis
      Da Costa and French explore the consequences of adopting a pragmatic notion of truth in the philosophy of science--in other words, accepting a theory as valid when it may only be partially true rather than wholly true. Their framework sheds new light on issues dealing with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development.

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      This is an important book. It summarizes and connects significant recent developments in several areas of philosophy, and develops a coherent approach to a well defined and important problem. * The Review of Metaphysics *

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