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True enough
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Elgin, Catherine Z.,

The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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True Enough
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ELGIN, Catherine Z.

Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that are not truth conducive. How can this stance account for the epistemic standing of science, which unabashedly relies on models, idealizations, and thought experiments that are known not to be true? In True Enough, Catherine Elgin argues tha…

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