Empirical progress and nomic truth approximation revisited |
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| Authors: | Theo AF Kuipers |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Philosophy, 135 Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA;2. Department of Philosophy, Wichita State University, 1845 North Fairmount, Campus Box 74, Wichita, KS 67260-0074, USA;1. Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, United States;2. Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, United States |
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| Abstract: | In my From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (2000) I have shown how an instrumentalist account of empirical progress can be related to nomic truth approximation. However, it was assumed that a strong notion of nomic theories was needed for that analysis. In this paper it is shown, in terms of truth and falsity content, that the analysis already applies when, in line with scientific common sense, nomic theories are merely assumed to exclude certain conceptual possibilities as nomic possibilities. |
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| Keywords: | Empirical progress Nomic truth approximation Truth content Falsity content Instrumentalism Realism Conceptual possibilities Nomic possibilities |
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