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work_sqh4htglqjd2pddbyp6han6bxu	Nicholas Maxwell	The Rationality of Scientific Discovery Part I: The Traditional Rationality Problem	1974	31	.pdf	application/pdf	18507	890	52	We thus face the crucial problem: How can we choose rationally between conflicting possible aims for science, conflicting metaphysical blueprints for future scientific metaphysical blueprints for future scientific theories, then we would in effect have a rational According to the aim oriented conception of scientific inquiry to be proposed here, discovery, though rational, is both science community may in fact seek to develop new theories which are in accordance with certain shared metaphysical preconceptions about the nature of the Recently, a number of writers appear to have abandoned the problem of providing a rationale for rejecting empirically successful aberrant theories in science, and order to know whether it is rational to accept a given theory Tin the light of evidence it is essential that we know what our basic aim is in considering whether or not aims for science, rival proposals for developing new scientific theories, P1,...	./cache/work_sqh4htglqjd2pddbyp6han6bxu.pdf	./txt/work_sqh4htglqjd2pddbyp6han6bxu.txt