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Success of Science and Truth

LI Di-fei

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The no-miracles argument of realism explains the success of science on the base of truth.However,whether understood strictly as being or loosely as being approximate truth,true theories have no necessary relation with the success of science,which is demonstrated by the history of science.Analysis shows that the explanation of the success of theories provided by anti-realism and non-realism is a kind of tautology,or will inevitably slide into the explanation of realism.Thus,truth or approximate truth is the only naturally ultimate explanation of the success of theories.However,acceptance of this explanation requires we revise the traditional definition of truth and take an attitude of trust toward science.

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The no-miracles argument of realism explains the success of science on the base of truth.However,whether understood strictly as being or loosely as being approximate truth,true theories have no necessary relation with the success of science,which is demonstrated by the history of science.Analysis shows that the explanation of the success of theories provided by anti-realism and non-realism is a kind of tautology,or will inevitably slide into the explanation of realism.Thus,truth or approximate truth is the only naturally ultimate explanation of the success of theories.However,acceptance of this explanation requires we revise the traditional definition of truth and take an attitude of trust toward science.

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The no-miracles argument of realism explains the success of science on the base of truth.However,whether understood strictly as being or loosely as being approximate truth,true theories have no necessary relation with the success of science,which is demonstrated by the history of science.Analysis shows that the explanation of the success of theories provided by anti-realism and non-realism is a kind of tautology,or will inevitably slide into the explanation of realism.Thus,truth or approximate truth is the only naturally ultimate explanation of the success of theories.However,acceptance of this explanation requires we revise the traditional definition of truth and take an attitude of trust toward science.

Key concepts: Tautology (logic), Epistemology, Realism, Scientific realism, Coherence theory of truth, Argument (complex analysis), Relation (database), Philosophy

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