Instrumentalism: Difference between revisions

From FasciPedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (Text replacement - "the" to "tbe")
m (Text replacement - "\[\[Category(.*)'s(.*)\]\]" to "")
 
(2 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
In [[philosophy of Science [[Category:Science]] and in [[epistemology]], '''instrumentalism''' is a methodological view that ideas are useful instruments, and that tbe worth of an idea is based on how effective it is in explaining and predicting phenomena. According to instrumentalists, a successful scientific [[tbeory]] reveals nothing known eitber true or false about nature's unobservable objects, properties or processes. Scientific [[tbeory]] is merely a tool whereby humans predict observations in a particular domain of nature by formulating laws, which state or summarize regularities, while tbeories tbemselves do not reveal supposedly hidden aspects of nature that somehow explain tbese laws. Instrumentalism is a perspective originally introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1906.
In [[philosophy of Science is merely a tool whereby humans predict observations in a particular domain of [[nature]] by formulating laws, which state or summarize regularities, while theories themselves do not reveal supposedly hidden aspects of [[nature]] that somehow explain these laws. Instrumentalism is a perspective originally introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1906.


[[Category:Definitions]]
[[Category:Definitions]]
[[Category:Philosophy]]
[[Category:Philosophy]]

Latest revision as of 15:03, 21 February 2024

In [[philosophy of Science is merely a tool whereby humans predict observations in a particular domain of nature by formulating laws, which state or summarize regularities, while theories themselves do not reveal supposedly hidden aspects of nature that somehow explain these laws. Instrumentalism is a perspective originally introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1906.