id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qic5por2x5gb7pxyz22ou6up4q Mark Newman Ramsey Sentence Realism as an Answer to the Pessimistic Meta‐Induction 2005 13 .pdf application/pdf 5311 287 52 John Worrall recently provided an account of epistemic structural realism, which explains the success of science by arguing for the correct mathematical structure of our He accounts for the historical failures of science by pointing to bloated ontological interpretations of theoretical terms. entities, processes and theoretical laws of mature and successful contemporary scientific theories, we are left with no explanation for scientific Worrall views the dichotomy as that between a theory's mathematical equations and the theoretical interpretation of its ontology. The structural realist claims that Fresnel's theory made correct predictions because it accurately identified certain relations between optical phenomena, and especially because these phenomena depend upon something realists are limited to cases where, aside from empirical phenomena, mathematical structure alone is preserved across theory transitions. follows I shall consider how Cruse and Papineau's Ramsey sentence realism fairs as a response along these lines. theory's Ramsey sentence has a theoretical term in it that is not to be ./cache/work_qic5por2x5gb7pxyz22ou6up4q.pdf ./txt/work_qic5por2x5gb7pxyz22ou6up4q.txt