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work_g2axwt4cefaqhnbtlwulasz4se	Hasok Chang	Preservative Realism and Its Discontents: Revisiting Caloric	2003	11	.pdf	application/pdf	5107	273	53	discontinuities shown in the historical record of science; contrary to Laudan's arguments, there are significant elements of successful scientific theories that get preserved even through revolutionary upheavals, and those 2. Psillos on the Caloric Theory of Heat. Psillos argues that the ''laws of the caloric theory can be deemed to be Let us see if the history of the caloric theory supports the preservative the ''three stages in the development of the caloric theory'': laws of calorimetry, the adiabatic law, and Carnot's theory of heat engines (Psillos 1994, the caloric theory, the preservation of calorimetric practices into later science is neither here nor there when we are trying to see whether the case of the caloric theory was not due to the belief in the material reality of heat. reference, Laudan's point can be reformulated as follows: the caloric theory was empirically successful, but the assumptions about the nature of	./cache/work_g2axwt4cefaqhnbtlwulasz4se.pdf	./txt/work_g2axwt4cefaqhnbtlwulasz4se.txt