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True Enough

Catherine Z. Elgin

Print publication date: 2017

Print ISBN-13: 9780262036535

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: May 2018

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036535.001.0001

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Distancing from Truth

Distancing from Truth

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(p.9) 2 Distancing from Truth
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True Enough
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Catherine Z. Elgin

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The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262036535.003.0002

Too strong an emphasis on truth prevents epistemology from accommodating the cognitive contributions of science. Models and idealizations function as felicitous falsehoods that enhance the understanding of a range of phenomena. What emerges is a holism in which networks of mutually reinforcing cognitive commitments stand or fall together.

Keywords:   Understanding, knowledge, holism, science, acceptance

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