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Which facts are relevant and which are not relevant to a science will be relative to the current state of development of that science.

Alan Chalmers
Science is widely esteemed. Apparently it is a widely held belief that there is something special about science and its methods.

Alan Chalmers
Science describes not just the observable world but also the world that lies beyond the appearances. This is a rough statement of realism with respect to science.

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A mature science is governed by a single paradigm.

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The confirmations of novel predictions resulting from bold conjectures are very important in the falsificationist account of the growth of science.

Alan Chalmers
Establishing by observation that there is just one black swan falsifies "all swans are white". This is an unexceptional and undeniable point. However, using it as grounds to support a falsificationist philosophy of science is not as straightforward as it might seem.

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The greater the number of conjectured theories that are confronted by the realities of the world, and the more speculative those conjectures are, the greater will be the chances of major advances in science.

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Science progresses by trail and error, by conjectures and refutations. Only the fittest theories survive.

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The aim of science is to falsify theories and to replace them by better theories, theories that demonstrate a greater ability to withstand tests.

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It should be no news to anyone that the perceptual judgements of individuals can be unreliable for a rang of reasons. The challenge, in science, is to arrange the observable situation in such a way that the reliance on such judgements is minimised if not eliminated.

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