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On the eliminative explanation of social theories

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The paper discusses eliminative explanation in which a (social) successor theory correctively explains and, as a consequence, eliminates its predecessor theory. Technical concepts and results from general logic are applied to the explication of corrective explanation, especially to the notion of framework translation that it involves.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Raimo Tuomela

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Tuomela, R. On the eliminative explanation of social theories. Stud Logica 42, 331–345 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063851

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