18982 | Pragmatism says all theories are instrumental - that is, mental modes of adaptation to reality [James] |
18985 | True thoughts are just valuable instruments of action [James] |
7621 | Special relativity, unlike general relativity, was operationalist in spirit [Putnam on Einstein] |
13940 | All linguistic forms in science are merely judged by their efficiency as instruments [Carnap] |
17665 | The 'Tractatus' is instrumentalist about laws of nature [Wittgenstein, by Armstrong] |
17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
4713 | For Quine, theories are instruments used to make predictions about observations [Quine, by O'Grady] |
13067 | For the instrumentalists there are no scientific explanations [Salmon] |
14204 | Naïve operationalism would have meanings change every time the tests change [Putnam] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
17704 | Operationalism defines concepts by our ways of measuring them [Mares] |
6778 | Instrumentalists regard theories as tools for prediction, with truth being irrelevant [Bird] |
22197 | Theories aren't just for organising present experience if they concern the past or future [Gorham] |
22196 | For most scientists their concepts are not just useful, but are meant to be true and accurate [Gorham] |