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T1 “Making Sense of Non-Refuting Anomalies.”
A1 Caamaño Alegre, María
AB As emphasized by Larry Laudan in developing the notion of non-refuting anomalies(1977, 2000), traditional analyses of empirical adequacy have not paid enoughattention to the fact that the latter does not only depend on a theory's empiricalconsequences being true but also on them corresponding to the most salientphenomena in its domain of application. The purpose of this paper is to elucidate thenotion of non-refuting anomaly. To this end, I critically examine Laudan's account andprovide a criterion to determine when a non-refuting anomaly can be ascribed to theapplicative domain of a theory. Unless this latter issue is clarified, no proper sense canbe made of non-refuting anomalies, and no argument could be opposed to those caseswhere an arbitrary restriction in a theory's domain of application dramatically reducesthe possibilities for its empirical scrutiny. In arguing for the importance of this notion, Ishow how several semanticist resources can help to reveal its crucial implications, notonly for theory evaluation, but also for understanding the nature of a theory'sapplicative domain.
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66095
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66095
LA eng
NO 2)	“Making Sense of Non-Refuting Anomalies.” Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, vol. 49, n. 3, 2018, pp. 261–82. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-018-9409-0
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RD 24-nov-2024