Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2019)

Formal Models of the Evolution of Scientific Theory

Authors
Nikolay Arkhiereev, Alexander Chernyaev
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Available Online October 2019.
DOI
10.2991/cesses-19.2019.284How to use a DOI?
Keywords
theory; model; formalization; axiomatization; truth; verisimilitude
Abstract

The article discusses various formal models of the evolution of scientific theory. The cumulative model based on the standard interpretation of a scientific theory presented the evolution of science as a continuous linear process. The abstract character of this model has become the object of fierce criticism from some representatives of the post-positivistic philosophy of science. This led to the statement about the incommensurability of alternating theories, of the unrealistic nature of the statements of scientific theories and the impossibility of applying to the theories of the natural sciences, and formally strict concepts of truth/falsity. The set-theoretic model of the development of science, based on the generalization of the concept of a model of theory in the sense of A. Tarski, allows avoiding the extremes of cumulative representations and at the same time allows demonstrating partial continuity between the models of alternating theories.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
October 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-816-1
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/cesses-19.2019.284How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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