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Fictionalism in metaphysics /
Fictionalism is the view that a serious intellectual inquiry need not aim at truth. It came to prominence in philosophy in 1980, when Hartry Field argued that mathematics does not have to be true to be good, and Bas van Fraassen argued that the aim of science is not truth but empirical adequacy. Bot...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Fictionalism is the view that a serious intellectual inquiry need not aim at truth. It came to prominence in philosophy in 1980, when Hartry Field argued that mathematics does not have to be true to be good, and Bas van Fraassen argued that the aim of science is not truth but empirical adequacy. Both suggested that the acceptance of a mathematical or scientific theory need not involve belief in its content. Thus the distinctive commitment of fictionalism is that acceptance in a given domain of inquiry need not be truth-normed, and that the acceptance of a sentence from the associated region of. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 354 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-350) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423771052 9781423771050 1280755997 9781280755996 |