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work_z4f6qbm3yfaj5d7zz552bqm7je	Ioannis Votsis	The Prospective Stance in Realism	2011	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5576	365	55	Scientific realists endeavor to secure inferences from empirical success to approximate truth by arguing that, despite the demise of empirically successful theories, the parts is to counter this argument by identifying successful theory parts independently from history of science is littered with once-successful theories that were ultimately abandoned as false in the wake of scientific revolutions. class of theory parts whose credentials for empirical success can be demonstrated independently of their survival. Many scientific realists take the successful reference of a theory's central theoretical terms to be a necessary condition the view that only certain parts of theories are empirically successful and, the ability to tell which parts of theories are empirically successful and, prior to their survival which parts of theories are empirically successful. about which theory parts were essential or empirically successful. Theory parts are neither (approximately) true nor empirically successful for the view that at least some empirically successful parts of theories,	./cache/work_z4f6qbm3yfaj5d7zz552bqm7je.pdf	./txt/work_z4f6qbm3yfaj5d7zz552bqm7je.txt