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Realism and inference to the best explanation

John Wright

pp. 79-115

The overall aim of this book is to develop an account of the nature of the reasons for scientific realism. So far, our aims have been negative or defensive: they have been to show that the (sceptical) arguments against the rationality of realism are (mostly) flawed. In this chapter we begin task of exploring the arguments that have been advanced for realism.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-02218-1_4

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Wright, J. (2018). Realism and inference to the best explanation, in An epistemic foundation for scientific realism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 79-115.

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