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“To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is actual and observable.... It must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise.”

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Bas van Fraassen
Bas van Fraassen

Bas van Fraassen is a Dutch philosopher renowned for his work in the fields of linguistic philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics. His research involves modal logic, scientific philosophy, and hermeneutics, having a profound impact on contemporary philosophy. more

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