D. DENNETT AND SCIENTIFIC REALISM: AFFIRMING THE CONSEQUENT AND THE EXISTENCE DIMENSION WITH PROJECTABILITY
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:54The paper aims to look for the arguments against the tenet that the inference to the best explanation that connects the scientific realism and the success of scientific knowledge, and that is coined as the Main argument for the scientific realism, is circular for it contains the affirming the consequent fallacy (L. Laudan, B. Van Fraassen, etc.) A special case of the «Main argument» is considered - the inference to the existence of unobservables on the basis of the causal explanation of the phenomenon.