Ontological Progress in Science
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چکیده
In the grand tradition, philosophical ontology was considered logically and epistemologically prior to scientific ontology. Like many contemporary philosophers of science, we consider this a mistake. There is a two-way traffic between philosophical and scientific ontologies; the more we learn about what there actually is, the more we learn about what can be and what must be, and vice versa. But that is not the present topic; here we focus on the ontology or ontologies of science, not traditional philosophical ontologies or the traffic between scientific and philosophical ontologies. As will soon be obvious, the problem of ontological progress in science, thus restricted, still offers plenty to hold us. We will address the following four theses, which we will support with some fragmentary arguments:
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