Abstract
A central topic in the logic of science concerns the proper semantic analysis of theoretical sentences, that is sentences containing theoretical terms. In this paper, we present a novel choice-semantical account of theoretical truth based on the epsilon-term definition of theoretical terms. Specifically, we develop two ways of specifying the truth conditions of theoretical statements in a choice functional semantics, each giving rise to a corresponding logic of such statements. In order to investigate the inferential strength of these logical systems, we provide a translation of each truth definition into a modal definition of theoretical truth. Based on this, we show that the stronger notion of choice-semantical truth captures more adequately our informal semantic understanding of scientific statements. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Faculties: | Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) |
| ISSN: | 0039-3681 |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 46967 |
| Date Deposited: | 27. Apr 2018, 08:12 |
| Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 13:23 |
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