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work_m3ogaoedkzfo7c5dh7scbhaj3u	Larry Laudan	Realism without the Real	1984	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3286	171	56	Newton-Smith and Boyd) to be uniquely explicable by realist epistemology, Hardin and Rosenberg maintain that realism is amply provided with if he likes, that the central explanatory concepts of many superceded theories have failed to refer (in the denotative sense) and yet still maintain successful; and (b) that the realist, by adopting a functional, non-denotative theory of reference, can even hold that the central explanatory concepts of past theories genuinely "referred", despite the fact that there is Hardin and Rosenberg say that Mendel's theory can be admitted by a realist to be nonreferring and yet still be held to be "approximately true", on the grounds (Putnam-Boyd-Newton-Smith) claim against which my paper was directed that only by accepting a realist construal of theories, can we explain why those theories (in particular, and science in general) are successful. to refute my charge that many successful theories have had central explanatory concepts which were evidently non-referring.	./cache/work_m3ogaoedkzfo7c5dh7scbhaj3u.pdf	./txt/work_m3ogaoedkzfo7c5dh7scbhaj3u.txt