Reliability, Realism and Relativism
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چکیده
Thesis (1) appears in two papers published in 1963.1 Theses (2) and (3) appear in later works under the joint rubric of internal realism.2 Putnam has not explained how the semantic theses that constitute internal realism fit together with his earlier, reliabilist conception of scientific inquiry. Nor have his followers. Barrels of philosophical ink have been spilled on (3) in complete isolation from (1). Computer scientists, on the other hand, have furthered the study of (1) over the past three decades with no consideration of (2) or (3). So there remains an interesting and obvious
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