Incommensurability and laboratory science

Figure 1 shows the average individual successfulness as a function of community size n, for agents in collaborative groups of various sizes.. A first observation is that

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Bas van Fraassen endorses both common-sense realism — the view, roughly, that the ordinary macroscopic objects that we take to exist actually do exist — and constructive empiricism

And at the level of references, we find notably the question of determining whether references of key scientific terms have indeed changed in the actual history of science, as well

Adopting the relativistic point of view, one could say that Lorentzian velocities are no relative velocities but refer to the motion of a body with respect to the ether, and one

I shall then defend that the notion of “the set of situations to which a con- cept is properly applied” is, and appears to be in Carrier’s case studies, more central for

• Moreover, some incommensurable concepts of the so-called incom- mensurable theories must have the same CA 1 (at least in the re- stricted sense): there must be concepts of T 1 and T

36 A detailed study of this case lies outside the scope of this paper; for further details see e.g.. conceptual structure the anomalous object will be ascribed to only one of