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The Charybdis of realism: Epistemological implications of bell's inequality

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    Bas C. Van Fraassen

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This research was supported by National Science Foundation grant SES 80-005827, hereby gratefully acknowledged. The paper began as a commentary on Hilary Putnam's contribution to this volume; although it took independent shape, the reader will discern my debt in the way I see and state the problems addressed. This paper is also deeply indebted to Richmond H. Thomason, ‘Prescience and Statistical Laws’ (ms. circulated November 1980) which argues cogently for theses about knowledge similar to the ones I defend for reasonable expectation, in relation to causal dependence.

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Van Fraassen, B.C. The Charybdis of realism: Epistemological implications of bell's inequality. Synthese 52, 25–38 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485253

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