Knowledge, Truth and Plausibility

Axiomathes 24 (4):517-532 (2014)
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From antiquity several philosophers have claimed that the goal of natural science is truth. In particular, this is a basic tenet of contemporary scientific realism. However, all concepts of truth that have been put forward are inadequate to modern science because they do not provide a criterion of truth. This means that we will generally be unable to recognize a scientific truth when we reach it. As an alternative, this paper argues that the goal of natural science is plausibility and considers some characters of plausibility

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Carlo Cellucci
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (PhD)

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