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Structural realism: The best of both worlds?
Dialectica 43 (1-2):99-124 (1989)
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The no-miracles argument for realism and the pessimistic meta-induction for anti-realism pull in opposite directions. Structural Realism---the position that the mathematical structure of mature science reflects reality---relieves this tension.Author's Profile
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10.1111/j.1746-8361.1989.tb00933.x
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In defense of convergent realism.Clyde L. Hardin & Alexander Rosenberg - 1982 - Philosophy of Science 49 (4):604-615.
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Theories, perception and structural realism.Grover Maxwell - 1970 - In Robert Colodny (ed.), The Nature and Function of Scientific Theories. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 3-34.
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