@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024},
author = {Fraassen,Bas van},
subject = {Best Explanation},
note = {I 20
Best explanation/BE/Harman/Fraassen: not committed to adopting unobservable entities. >Unobserables.
I 22
FraassenVsBest explanation: even if I am obliged to say that a theory is either true or false, I am not obliged to conclude it! - I am when I’m determined not to remain neutral.
Simplicity: does not commit me on a theory that I do not believe. >Simplicity.
False solution: to assume just a second (false) theory, and then to use the Best explanation in order to choose the other. -
To follow normal patterns of inference does not make realists of us all - ((s) otherwise the anti-realism would have to be logically false). >Inferences, >Anti-realism.},
note = { Fr I B. van Fraassen The Scientific Image Oxford 1980
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