Formal Models of the Evolution of Scientific Theory

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10.2991/cesses-19.2019.284How to use a DOI?

Keywords

theory; model; formalization; axiomatization; truth; verisimilitude

Abstract

The article discusses various formal models of the evolution of scientific theory. The cumulative model based on the standard interpretation of a scientific theory presented the evolution of science as a continuous linear process. The abstract character of this model has become the object of fierce criticism from some representatives of the post-positivistic philosophy of science. This led to the statement about the incommensurability of alternating theories, of the unrealistic nature of the statements of scientific theories and the impossibility of applying to the theories of the natural sciences, and formally strict concepts of truth/falsity. The set-theoretic model of the development of science, based on the generalization of the concept of a model of theory in the sense of A. Tarski, allows avoiding the extremes of cumulative representations and at the same time allows demonstrating partial continuity between the models of alternating theories.

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AU  - Nikolay Arkhiereev
AU  - Alexander Chernyaev
PY  - 2019/10
DA  - 2019/10
TI  - Formal Models of the Evolution of Scientific Theory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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