Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen (/væn ˈfrɑːsən/; born 5 April 1941) is a Dutch-American philosopher noted for his contributions to philosophy of science...
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structuralism, its main proponent, Bas van Fraassen, has consistently distinguished between the two views. Bas van Fraassen is nearly solely responsible for...
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pp. 243–45. Less clear is §10.3 of Bas van Fraassen, 1989. Laws and Symmetry. Oxford Univ. Press. Bas van Fraassen, 1989. Laws and Symmetry. Oxford Univ...
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that differed from those of the logical positivists—was defended by Bas van Fraassen, Michael Dummett, Crispin Wright, Christopher Peacocke, David Wiggins...
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Rudolf Carnap, Hans Hermes, Hans Reichenbach, Adolph Grünbaum, and Bas van Fraassen who incorporated this concept into their own theories such as the topology...
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185. LCCN 79318586. OL 4489088M. Stenmark, Mikael (2003), "Scientism", in van Huyssteen, J Wentzel Vrede (ed.), Encyclopedia of science and religion (2nd ed...
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reductionism referred to explanations, theories, and meanings, see Willard Van Orman Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism. Quine objected to the positivistic...
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first conceived of in 1972 by Bas van Fraassen, in his paper "A formal approach to the philosophy of science". Van Fraassen introduced a distinction between...
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of its explanatory content would be of strictly limited utility. Bas van Fraassen's (1980) project of constructive empiricism focuses on belief in the...
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contain elements resembling the modal interpretation originated by Bas van Fraassen. Because Schrödinger subscribed to a kind of post-Machian neutral monism...
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unresolved, were heavily criticised by leading philosophers, particularly Willard van Orman Quine and Karl Popper, and even, within the movement itself, by Hempel...
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in physics in 1946 and 1949, respectively, under the supervision of John Van Vleck. As he states in the first few pages of the preface to the second edition...
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described as "superfalse". Supervaluations were first formalized by Bas van Fraassen. Let v be a classical valuation defined on every atomic sentence of...
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Grammar. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. p. 14. Nowen, Rick; Brasoveanu, Adrian; van Eijck, Jan; Visser, Albert (2016). "Dynamic Semantics". In Zalta, Edward...
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at Marxists.org "Thomas Kuhn, 73; Devised Science Paradigm", obituary by Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times, 19 June 1996 (archived 7 February 2012)....
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Delahunty & Dignen 2012, p. 365 Blayney 1769, Genesis Legge 2017, p. 181 Van Nieuwenhove 2020, p. 395 Campo 2009, p. 515 Swartley 2005, p. 63 Burton 2002...
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Willard Van Orman Quine (/kwaɪn/; known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic...
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945), pp. 673–74. Stathis Psillos, "On Van Fraassen's critique of abductive reasoning" Archived 18 August 2018 at the Wayback...
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