Feyerabend's 'anything goes' implies there is no exclusive scientific method, promoting methodological pluralism
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Feyerabend's 'anything goes' implies there is no exclusive scientific method, promoting methodological pluralism
Instrumentalism
Instrumentalism views scientific theories as useful tools, not as descriptions of unobservable reality
Nominalism
Nominalism claims only particular things exist, universals are just names
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
Husserl's crisis argued that positivism neglected the lifeworld's meaning-giving role
Wittgenstein's later philosophy argues
Wittgenstein's later philosophy posits: "Meaning is use, not reference."
Scientific realism
Scientific realism posits unobservable entities have the same ontological status as observables
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Quine's essay attacked two central aspects of logical positivism
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