Scientific Objectivity and its Limits
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چکیده
Measurement outcomes provide data for a physical theory. Unless they are objective support no scientific knowledge. So the outcome of quantum measurement must be an fact. But recent arguments purport to show that if theory is universally applicable then there such This calls reappraisal notions fact and objectivity. If facts about world include each outcome. These lack ideal kind objectivity but their more modest all science needs.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0007-0882', '1464-3537']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/716169