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SYNTHESE
2011
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13 years 5 months ago
Underdetermination, realism and empirical equivalence
Are theories ‘underdetermined by the evidence’ in any way that should worry the scientific realist? I argue that no convincing reason has been given for thinking so. A crucial ...
John Worrall
ECIS
2003
14 years 7 days ago
Critical realism: a way forward in IS research
Although different strands of “post-approaches” and “post-theories”, for example, grounded theory and structuration theory, have gained popularity in Information Systems (...
Sven A. Carlsson
SYNTHESE
2011
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13 years 5 months ago
Metaphysical underdetermination: why worry?
Various forms of underdetermination that might threaten the realist stance are examined. That which holds between different ‘formulations’ of a theory (such as the Hamiltonian...
Steven French
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Keys for XML
We discuss the de nition of keys for XML documents, paying particular attention to the concept of a relative key, which is commonly used in hierarchically structured documents and...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Wenfei Fan, Carm...
SYNTHESE
2011
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Is structural underdetermination possible?
Structural realism is sometimes said to undermine the theory underdetermination (TUD) argument against realism, since, in usual TUD scenarios, the supposed underdetermination conc...
Holger Lyre