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work_yuhttmrpgfh2jo67xwhrsmrfly	Marcel Weber	Determinism, Realism, and Probability in Evolutionary Theory	2001	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5857	451	48	is eliminable, a subjective interpretation of probability, and instrumentalism; (2) Indeterminism combined with the claim that the statistical character is ineliminable, a I point out some internal problems in these positions and show that the relationship between determinism, eliminability, realism, and the interpretation of probability is more complex than previously Thus, like in quantum mechanics, there are ontological reasons for the statistical nature of evolutionary theory, which means it is ineliminable. Even if determinism is true and the statistical character of evolutionary theory is in principle eliminable, neither GHR's instrumentalism instrumentalism about biology rests partly on his considerations of reduction (see Weber 1996 for a critique) and partly on his account of probability and the statistical nature of evolutionary theory. The basic strategy of Rosenberg's argument is to show that an omniscient being would have no need for a statistical evolutionary theory.	./cache/work_yuhttmrpgfh2jo67xwhrsmrfly.pdf	./txt/work_yuhttmrpgfh2jo67xwhrsmrfly.txt