Algumas razões para levar a sério a metaindução pessimistA
Vol 18, No 2 (2014) • Principia: an international journal of epistemology
Autor: Tiago Luís Teixeira Oliveira
Abstract:
The present paper aims to give an account of pessimistic meta-induction (PMI) and reply to some representative realist authors who want to consider PMI a fallacy. Most of that accounts are misinterpretations of Laudant’s ideas and fails the target. This work intend that PMI is neither a induction nor a reductio, but a skeptic challenge. If this is right then PMI could not be a fallacy and the realism cannot escape from the task of explain why the success is a good indication for the truthlikeness of the current theories.
ISSN: 1414-4217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2014v18n2p269
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/1808-1711.2014v18n2p269/29401
Palavras-Chave: Pessimistic induction,realism,anti-realism,La
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