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125 - Bas van Fraassen: Realism, Thomas Kuhn, and the Semantic Approach in Philosophy of Science
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The Question of the Core of Our Scientific Theories Is True
Most scientists that you've spoken with think that the core of our scientific theories are true. And I'm asking if that is in the sense that, say, the electron has proven such a successful theoretical entity that it's unlikely to be done away with in any successor theory. Well, you know, scientists don't tend to make the station that we're just saying. Then we all agree that as some level of analysis, the electron will never disappear from the theory, okay? Even though at some point you don't have particles anymore, you only have fields,. nevertheless, you can still say, yeah, but you know, I use the word 'electron' But it will never disappear
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