THE PROBLEM OF UNOBSERVABLE A DEFENSE OF VAN FRAASSENAS DISTINCTION BETWEEN OBSERVABLE AND UNOBSERVABLE

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MOAZZENZADE JAHANGIR; MOUSAVI KARIMI MIRSAEID

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Journal: RESEARCH ON METAPHYSIK Year:2016 | Volume:51 | Issue:20 Page(s): 45-64

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THE PROBLEM OF UNOBSERVABLE A DEFENSE OF VAN FRAASSENAS DISTINCTION BETWEEN OBSERVABLE AND UNOBSERVABLE

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MOAZZENZADE JAHANGIR | MOUSAVI KARIMI MIRSAEID | Issue Writer Certificate

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CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISMQ2

SCIENTIFIC REALISMQ2

ANTI-REALISMQ2

OBSERVABLEQ2

UNOBSERVABLEQ2

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In CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM Van Fraassen intends to defend the epistemological distinction between truth and empirical adequacy as well as between cognitive belief and pragmatic acceptance, based on epistemological distinction between OBSERVABLE entities and UNOBSERVABLE entities. Some of the critics not only disagree with these two epistemological distinctions, but also opposed to the mentioned basic epistemological distinction. Although van Fraassen himself with a linguistic evasiveness accepts the ambiguousness of the OBSERVABLE predicate of some entities such as molecule in order to sympathize with these critics, he considers some entities such as electron as definitely UNOBSERVABLE without providing any clear criteria and insists on the mentioned basic distinction. The present paper intends to argue that one can defend the basic epistemological distinction based on the epistemological limit of perception (vision) and the criteria of presence or absence of the OBSERVABLE refrence to the naked eye. Consequently, in order to reject the epistemological distinction between truth and empirical adequacy as well as between cognitive belief and pragmatic acceptance, Van Fraassen’s critics should appeal to some argument other than denying the epistemological distinction between OBSERVABLE entities and UNOBSERVABLE entities.

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MOAZZENZADE, JAHANGIR, & MOUSAVI KARIMI, MIRSAEID. (2016). THE PROBLEM OF UNOBSERVABLE A DEFENSE OF VAN FRAASSENA??S DISTINCTION BETWEEN OBSERVABLE AND UNOBSERVABLE. RESEARCH ON METAPHYSIK, 51(20 ), 45-64. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/157517/en

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MOAZZENZADE JAHANGIR, MOUSAVI KARIMI MIRSAEID. THE PROBLEM OF UNOBSERVABLE A DEFENSE OF VAN FRAASSENA??S DISTINCTION BETWEEN OBSERVABLE AND UNOBSERVABLE. RESEARCH ON METAPHYSIK[Internet]. 2016;51(20 ):45-64. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/157517/en

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JAHANGIR MOAZZENZADE, and MIRSAEID MOUSAVI KARIMI, “THE PROBLEM OF UNOBSERVABLE A DEFENSE OF VAN FRAASSENA??S DISTINCTION BETWEEN OBSERVABLE AND UNOBSERVABLE,” RESEARCH ON METAPHYSIK, vol. 51, no. 20 , pp. 45–64, 2016, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/157517/en

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