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work_kdrtctlfrffata2xcpxdurkdy4	Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam	What's so special about empirical adequacy?	2017	25	.pdf	application/pdf	12143	804	63	theories we choose need not be anything like empirically adequate, and as we will argue, something like this: a theory (or model or set of scientific claims) is empirically adequate Bas van Fraassen's (1980) definition – a theory is empirically adequate if it gets right of science, says The Scientific Image, is to produce theories that are empirically adequate the vehicles of understanding – explanations, theories, models etc. The unifying theory that provides the understanding will generally be far less empirically "Whether or not theories or models can be used for understanding phenomena does explicitly say much about the empirical adequacy of theories and models for So, to manage the world we don't need our theories to get right most of their empirical scientific models or theories are expected to do don't require them to get any empirical access to what the world is like; the empirical consequences of a theory/model are our 	./cache/work_kdrtctlfrffata2xcpxdurkdy4.pdf	./txt/work_kdrtctlfrffata2xcpxdurkdy4.txt