Constructive Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Modality
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58 (3):605-612 (2007)
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James Ladyman ([2000]) argues that constructive empiricism is untenable because it cannot adequately account for modal statements about observability. In this paper, I attempt to resist Ladyman's conclusion, arguing that the constructive empiricist can grant his modal discourse objective, theory-independent truth-conditions, yet without compromising his empiricism
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