Lexicon of Arguments

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V 50-53
PutnamVsOperationalism: the link between theory and experience is probabilistic because it is not a simple semantic correlation. "Permitted interpretation": different effects always have different causes.
PutnamVsTradition: it is wrong to conclude from an experience E, whether the theory works because the sentence is operationally linked with the experience E ((s) > Löwenheim). Operationalism is trying to fix reference operationally (PutnamVs).
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I (c) 81
Operationalism/Putnam: instead of "true" we say: "is simple and leads to true predictions".
Putnam: then the causal-explanatory role of truth and reference is not maintained ((s) about the existence of the things that cause the phenomena). >PutnamVsOperationalism, cf. >Instrumentalism.

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