Scientific Instruments, Domains of Application, and Incommensurability1
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چکیده
In this paper, I provide a notion of domain of application of a scientific theory that is sensitive to various aspects of scientific practice, accommodates central features of the latter without generating relativistic conclusions, while still acknowledging the presence of incommensurability. To articulate the proposal, scientific instruments will play a central role. In the end, these instruments yield a much-needed invariance under theoretical transformations, and help to delimit the domain of certain theories.
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