The Explanation of the Success of Science
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چکیده
The increasing success of science has been traditionally interpreted as a result of the accumulation of truths about reality. This explanation and the cumulative view on which it relies have been challenged on the basis of several criticisms. The more cogent of these criticisms is the pessimistic meta-induction. In this paper, we propose a novel explanation of the success of science: Through what we call the negatively cumulative argument, we advance the idea that science is successful because it accumulates knowledge about negative results. The main original element of the negatively cumulative argument is the disengagement of the concept of cumulativity from the one of truth. This disengagement allows the argument to resists the pessimistic meta-induction.
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