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12 pages. If scientific theory has confirming instances and it is not falsified by any available empirical evidence at a given time but is empirically adequate at that time, then is every scientific theory that is empirically adequate at a given time scientifically acceptable at that time? This paper considers this interesting and thoughtful question and gives a convincing argument about it. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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is every scientific theory that is empirically adequate at a given time scientifically acceptable at that time? This paper considers this interesting and thoughtful question and gives a convincing
argument about it. EXPLANATION OF THE CLAIM It is this authors opinion that every scientific theory that is empirically adequate at a given time is scientifically acceptable at that
time. This is because one does not know at the time the theory is announced whether there is any more empirical evidence to discover. In other words, it
is felt that all of the evidence has been acquired at that time and so it is generally accepted that the claim can be scientifically accepted. There are of course
objections to consider; for instance, before man knew of germs that could spread disease through drinking water, it was thought that all the evidence that could be discovered had been.
There was no reason to continue searching for further truths as to how disease spread. But obviously the scientific data at the time was inadequate until it was
discovered that minute particles of bacteria (germs) were actually the cause of disease through contaminated water. But until man can discover a further truth, it is only common sense
that the empirical evidence gathered up to that time is the evidence that is taken to be the truth. AN EXAMPLE EXPERIMENT In this example we will look at
the works of Zenon Pylyshyn. In the nearly "indissoluble relationship between theories of cognition and attempts to understand the processes of learning there is an easy assimilation into the
fray over sovereignty" (Pylyshyn, 1999, PG). Likely questions could be who controls knowledge? Is knowledge beat into our heads (PG) or are we led to discoveries? Does learning occur
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