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125 - Bas van Fraassen: Realism, Thomas Kuhn, and the Semantic Approach in Philosophy of Science
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The Semantic Approach to Philosophy
The distinction between theoretical and observational terms in a language disappears after reading Coon because his approach was so centered on scientific practice? Yes, yes. And Coon himself later on became much more interested in issues about language. But the reason I think that his book has such impact was that he was at that point not interested in issues of language. Too many problems have been generated just by this focus on language. The semantic approach replaced the methodological framework for philosophers of science. Frederick Supe had read a lot of von Neumann and had gone the same message as I did that this is how you should talk about scientific theories. Avard Bette wrote a small textbook during the war but didn't
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