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work_bachm7uq5baaxdlcmbze6n3xsy	Marc Alspector-Kelly	Should the Empiricist Be a Constructive Empiricist?	2001	36	.pdf	application/pdf	8621	484	54	Before Bas van Fraassen presented his account of Constructive Empiricism (CE forward by scientific realists against the empiricist point of view" (van Fraassen 1980, 5), that van Fraassen is not just concerned to show that the constructive empiricist's stance is only evidential relation between theory and empirical information that van Fraassen Epistemology" (van Fraassen 1993).5 One might well think that the empiricist would have to The empiricist's problem arises, van Fraassen says, because empiricism was empiricism has on van Fraassen's claim that the empiricist should be a constructive does not imply belief in the truth of the most explanatory theory (van Fraassen 1980, 71-72). empirical adequacy can be justified by the evidence, RESP denies that van Fraassen ever But to defend his empiricist thesis van Fraassen needs to argue, not that commitment Van Fraassen is "content to argue that empiricists should not be realists when van Fraassen chastised the realist for believing more than the empirical evidence 	./cache/work_bachm7uq5baaxdlcmbze6n3xsy.pdf	./txt/work_bachm7uq5baaxdlcmbze6n3xsy.txt