id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dbnrrcbbgnbdrkjiq4epziixau Peter Vickers A Confrontation of Convergent Realism 2013 28 .pdf application/pdf 10418 722 63 turned to novel predictive success as providing the warrant for realist commitment. history of science where novel predictive success was achieved by a scientific theory later predictive success issuing from rejected hypotheses and theories in the history of science. realist can respond to examples of novel predictive success issuing from (significantly) false 'working posits' within a theory which 'really fuel the derivation' of the relevant prediction, mark on contemporary realism by simply presenting cases of novel predictive success novel predictive success, there is no warrant for realist commitment. So this is a straightforward case of novel predictive success, but if the divide et impera realist had to make a commitment to the 'working posits' in this case she would be in any realists restrict their commitments to cases of quantitative predictive success: that realist commitment given how impressive the predictive success is, and (b) one can identify ./cache/work_dbnrrcbbgnbdrkjiq4epziixau.pdf ./txt/work_dbnrrcbbgnbdrkjiq4epziixau.txt