Any philosophers of science willing to vouch for the accuracy of this chart?
I don't think my view is represented here. Basically, I think scientific models start out lower down and can be moved upwards through different degrees of reality as work on them.
I don't think my view is represented here. Basically, I think scientific models start out lower down and can be moved upwards through different degrees of reality as work on them.
So my perspective is sort of a No-Free-Lunch or Very-Little-Free-Lunch perspective on scientific realism. Before I accept your theory, I want to characterize how much work you did and what kind. I don't want to give you "scientific reality" for free.
This is why I'm kind of a skeptic on "2+2=4" because in almost all cases one has done no real work to verify that a statement like this describes all of physical reality in practice. "All of reality" is very big you see.
h/t: @elangelou for the diagram
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