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What Is Empirical Testing? - Michael Strevens
What Is Empirical Testing? Michael StrevensDraft of February 2008 AbstractScience is epistemically special, or so I will assume: it is better able to produceknowledge about the workings of the world than other knowledge-directedpursuits. Further, its superior epistemic powers are due to its being insome sense especially Empirical : in particular, science puts great weight ona form of inductive reasoning that I callempirical con rmation. My aimin this paper is to investigate the nature of science s empiricism , and toprovide a preliminary explanation of the connection between empiricalconfirmation and epistemic efficacy.
What Is Empirical Testing? Michael Strevens Draft of February 2008 Abstract Science is epistemically special, or so I will assume: it is better able to produce
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