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SYNTHESE
Volume 196, Issue 10, Pages 3979-3993Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0855-5
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Realism; Pessimistic induction; Stanford
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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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