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The success of current scientific theories is no miracle. It is not even surprising to the scientific (Darwinist) mind. For any scientific theory is born into a life of fierce competition, a jungle red in tooth and claw. Only the successful theories survive — the ones which in fact latched on to the actual regularities in nature.

Bas van Fraassen

Science aims to give us, in its theories, a literally true story of what the world is like; and acceptance of a scientific theory involves the belief that it is true.

Bas van Fraassen

Bas van Fraassen

Bas van Fraassen

Born: April 5, 1941 (age 84)

Bio: Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University, noted for his seminal contributions to philosophy of science.

Known for:

The scientific image (1980)
Scientific representation (2008)
The Empirical Stance (2002)
Laws and symmetry (1989)
Quantum mechanics (1991)

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