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Quote: the gods of Homer and physical objects are both irreducible posits of a system of knowledge; instrumentalism
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empirical truth
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As an empiricist I continue to think of … of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported … posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer. … gods; and I consider it a scientific error … only in degree and not in kind. … The myth of physical objects is epistemologically superior … working a manageable structure into the flux of … [also called instrumentalism] Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: as an empiricist, science is a tool for predicting future experience via past experience
Topic: meaning by language as a whole (26 items)
Topic: scientific method (40 items)
Topic: empirical truth (44 items)