@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024}, author = {Fraassen,Bas van}, subject = {Anti-Realism}, note = {I 18 Anti-Realism/VsAnti-Realism: what he believes about the world depends on what kind of world he believes to be in. >Possible worlds. Fraassen VsVs: (pro anti-realism): this would presuppose that epistemology provided the same results, regardless of the span of evidence available to us - that would presuppose skepticism. Solution/Fraassen: empirical adequacy: a theory should correctly describe phenomena ("preserve") - then observability depends on our community. >Adequacy. I 31 Anti-Realism/Science/Fraassen: for him, it is all about increase in knowledge about the observable - Fraassen pro. - Possibly another correlation is assumed between smoking and cancer: lung irritation, etc. I 219 FraassenVsAnti-Realism: cannot claim that successful theories are simply those that survive without claiming that they are true. >Theories, >Success.}, note = { Fr I B. van Fraassen The Scientific Image Oxford 1980 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=201160} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=201160} }