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Underdetermination as an Epistemological Test Tube: Expounding Hidden Values of the Scientific Community

Underdetermination as an Epistemological Test Tube: Expounding Hidden Values of the Scientific Community . Martin Carrier (Bielefeld University) . 1. Introduction Underdetermination thesis: any given set of data can always be represented by different, conceptually incompatible accounts.

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BERKELEY AND IDEALISM

BERKELEY AND IDEALISM. Strange to claim there is an external world; Inconceivable that mind independent matter causes our experiences. EMPIRICISM. Realism entails a gap Between appearance and reality Objects are families of ideas, so there is no sceptical gap. SCEPTICISM.

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