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Da Costa and French explore the consequences of adopting a "pragmatic" notion of truth in the philosophy of science--in other words, accepting a theory as valid when it may only be partially true rather than wholly true. Their framework sheds new light on issues dealing with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Philosophy of science

• Full title: Science and Partial Truth
• Subtitle: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning
• Author: Newton C.A. da Costa, Steven French, Newton C.A. da Costa
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 268
• EAN: 9780195156515
• ISBN: 019515651X
• ID: 04515753
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 561 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 165 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. November 2003

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