When Empirical Success Implies Theoretical Reference: A Structural Correspondence Theorem
When Empirical Success Implies Theoretical Reference: A Structural Correspondence Theorem
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当经验的成功意味着理论参考时:结构对应定理
DOI:
10.1093/bjps/axn049
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发表时间:
2009
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通讯作者:
Schurz
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作者:
Schurz
Starting from a brief recapitulation of the contemporary debate on scientific realism, this paper argues for the following thesis: Assume a theory T has been empirically successful in a domain of application A, but was superseded later on by a superior theory T*, which was likewise successful in A but has an arbitrarily different theoretical superstructure. Then under natural conditions T contains certain theoretical expressions, which yielded T's empirical success, such that these T-expressions correspond (in A) to certain theoretical expressions of T*, and given T* is true, they refer indirectly to the entities denoted by these expressions of T*. The thesis is first motivated by a study of the phlogiston–oxygen example. Then the thesis is proved in the form of a logical theorem, and illustrated by further examples. The final sections explain how the correspondence theorem justifies scientific realism and work out the advantages of the suggested account.
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