The intelligibility objection against underdetermination
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The Intelligibility Objection against Underdetermination
One of the objections against the thesis of underdetermination of theories by observations is that it is unintelligible. Any two empirically equivalent theories — so the argument goes — are in principle intertranslatable, hence cannot count as rivals in any non-trivial sense. Against that objection, this paper shows that empirically equivalent theories may contain theoretical sentences that are...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Principia: an international journal of epistemology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1808-1711,1414-4247
DOI: 10.5007/1808-1711.2012v16n1p121