This raises questions, in the debate between scientific realism and instrumentalism about the status of current posits, such as black holes and quarks.
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Another approach, instrumentalism, colloquially termed " shut up and multiply, " emphasizes the utility of theories as instruments for explaining and predicting phenomena.
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"' Instrumentalism "'is one of a multitude of modern schools of thought created by scientists and philosophers throughout the 20th century.
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The very term " Geist " lifts Dilthey's discussion beyond the philosophical premises of pragmatism, instrumentalism and modern-day postmodernism.
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But rather than claim that a divided Instrumentalism embraces irreconcilable premises, Hirsch and De Marchi yielded the Institutionalist title to the more widely recognized interpretation of Popper.
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Instrumentalism is often identified with other schools which share some of these premises : positivism, pragmatism, operationalism, behaviorism, anti-realism, empiricism, consequentialism.
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Transcendentalism's Waldo Emerson is one of America's three great philosophers, sharing the pantheon with pragmatism's William James and instrumentalism's John Dewey.
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Close to instrumentalism is constructive empiricism, according to which the main criterion for the success of a scientific theory is whether what it says about observable entities is true.
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One major focus of Rey's exposition relates to eliminativism and instrumentalism, particularly with respect to the mental states that we are subjectively aware of by way of introspection.
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Dewey's " Logic " did not name instrumentalism or pragmatism, but argued that both schools treat theories as tools for producing consequences premises 1 and 2.
