Episode 159: Philosophy of science : instrumentalism (and why it is bad)

Rapid Idea Improvement
25/05/2024 19 min

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In the philosophy of science, instrumentalism is the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but by how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.



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