Scientific progress as accumulation of knowledge: a reply to Rowbottom
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 39 (2):279-281 (2008)
| Abstract | I defend my view that scientific progress is constituted by the accumulation of knowledge against a challenge from Rowbottom in favour of the semantic view that it is only truth that is relevant to progress. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Scientific progress Knowledge Aim of inquiry Darrell Rowbottom | |||||||||
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