Empiricism

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think that we know the totality of science to the extent that we think we’re qualified to make such conjectures about the true nature of the world in which we live. Therefore, I consider realism to be an erroneous approach to science.
Before determining the validity of instrumentalism, I think we must look at history to help us determine science’s overall purpose. I believe that science precipitates from an inner curiosity how about how the world works. I believe that after looking into the past, we can deduce that science has had a dual function: to explain observable or unobservable phenomenon and to help predict the outcome of our actions. For example, with the gravitational theory, at first we attempted to explain the motion of falling objects and then assuming that this force that we call “gravity” would stay relatively static, we could predict the outcome of other falling objects. Instrumentalist is a noble theory, but I don’t believe it to be ...

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