Science and partial truth: a unitary approach to models and scientific reasoning

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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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