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work_6s6mnsx45zdupajkwtungwwilu	Jacob Stegenga	Robustness, Discordance, and Relevance	2009	12	.pdf	application/pdf	4993	317	48	Robustness has been put to numerous epistemic tasks, including the demarcation of artifacts from real entities, countering the "experimenter's regress," and resolving evidential discordance. Salmon's (1984) "common-cause" argument is similar to the notion of robustness: Avogadro's number is consistently demonstrated using experiments based on different methodologies: Brownian motion, alpha particle decay, X-ray diffraction, blackbody different kinds of evidence generated by independent techniques, but they This is not to claim that robustness is a useless methodological strategy—Perrin's arguments for the existence of molecules, the canonical example based on concordant multimodal evidence, were convincing—it is That multiple independent techniques often display discordant evidence robustness is as a methodological strategy depends on what we can actually do with it; and without systematic ways of assessing and amalgamating discordant multimodal evidence, I do not think there is much we the discordant multimodal evidence regarding the mode of influenza transmission, nor did they have criteria to determine which particular kinds	./cache/work_6s6mnsx45zdupajkwtungwwilu.pdf	./txt/work_6s6mnsx45zdupajkwtungwwilu.txt