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(2014) Axiomathes 24 (4).
From antiquity several philosophers have claimed that the goal of natural science is truth. In particular, this is a basic tenet of contemporary scientific realism. However, all concepts of truth that have been put forward are inadequate to modern science because they do not provide a criterion of truth. This means that we will generally be unable to recognize a scientific truth when we reach it. As an alternative, this paper argues that the goal of natural science is plausibility and considers some characters of plausibility.
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Cellucci, C. (2014). Knowledge, truth and plausibility. Axiomathes 24 (4), pp. 517-532.
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