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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1990 41(3):415-427; doi:10.1093/bjps/41.3.415
© 1990 by British Society for the Philosophy of Science
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Cherniak on Scientific Realism

HAROLD I. BROWN

Northern Illinois University

In the final chapter of Minimal Rationality Christopher Cherniak offers three arguments to show that an agent with finite cognitive resources is not capable of arriving at a true and complete theory of the universe. I discuss each of these arguments and show that Cherniak has not succeeded in making his antirealist case.


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