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work_bukx2qlqyjctdoi7asnlpqs2iy	Anjan Chakravartty	Stance relativism: empiricism versus metaphysics	2004	11	.pdf	application/pdf	6106	400	54	Stance relativism: empiricism versus metaphysics In The empirical stance, Bas van Fraassen argues for a reconceptualization of empiricism, 2. Doctrine versus stance empiricism and the case against metaphysics which it is rationally permissible to hold any stance and believe any set of facts that meet important to van Fraassen that empiricism be identified with a stance, for if we were to find empiricism as a stance as opposed to a factual belief. One of the reasons that van Fraassen is concerned to reconceive empiricism as a stance is that But this is to engage in metaphysics, and that is why empiricism, or at least van Fraassen's precisely what van Fraassen cannot do, for he thinks that metaphysics is indeed a rationally understand empiricism and metaphysics as stances, I believe that this is the only form that Speaking from within the empirical stance, van Fraassen suggests that metaphysicians make 	./cache/work_bukx2qlqyjctdoi7asnlpqs2iy.pdf	./txt/work_bukx2qlqyjctdoi7asnlpqs2iy.txt