On the eliminative explanation of social theories (Q795821)
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On the eliminative explanation of social theories (English)
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1983
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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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social theories
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philosophy of science
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eliminative explanation
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successor theory
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predecessor theory
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explication of corrective explanation
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framework translation
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