id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_yjoejpqd2rf2zmn6rkgbwynx54 Moti Mizrahi The Argument from Underconsideration and Relative Realism 2013 16 .pdf application/pdf 7824 547 59 good reasons to think that science's best theories are close to the truth. our best scientific theories are true, since theory evaluation is comparative, and since scientists true from a set of competing theories, scientists have no good reason to believe that any of the In evaluating theories scientists merely rank the competitors comparatively. successful scientific theories are well-confirmed and approximately true of the world" (Psillos believe that successful scientific theories are approximately true. This argument is a bad inductive generalization because current theories are not quite like past reasons to believe that a theory is comparatively true (i.e., that T1 is closer to the truth than T2, reasonably claim that the theories we have tested are closest to the truth (i.e., likely true), privileged in a way that allows him/her to make good (i.e., true) Xs (i.e., scientific theories), just comparative judgments, about the truth of scientific theories. ./cache/work_yjoejpqd2rf2zmn6rkgbwynx54.pdf ./txt/work_yjoejpqd2rf2zmn6rkgbwynx54.txt