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(1997) Science and the quest for reality, Dordrecht, Springer.

Experimentation and scientific realism

Ian Hacking

pp. 162-181

Experimental physics provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. Entities that in principle cannot be observed are regularly manipulated to produce new phenomena and to investigate other aspects of nature. They are tools, instruments not for thinking but for doing.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25249-7_7

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Hacking, I. (1997)., Experimentation and scientific realism, in A. Tauber (ed.), Science and the quest for reality, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 162-181.

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