{"id":10970,"date":"2023-03-28T18:10:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/at-the-end-of-section-ii-of-realism-vs-constructive-empiricism-musgrave-argues-that-van-fraassens-treatment-of-the-observable-unobservable-distinction-verges-on-the-incoherent-and-another-to\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T18:10:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:10:05","slug":"at-the-end-of-section-ii-of-realism-vs-constructive-empiricism-musgrave-argues-that-van-fraassens-treatment-of-the-observable-unobservable-distinction-verges-on-the-incoherent-and-another-to","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/at-the-end-of-section-ii-of-realism-vs-constructive-empiricism-musgrave-argues-that-van-fraassens-treatment-of-the-observable-unobservable-distinction-verges-on-the-incoherent-and-another-to\/","title":{"rendered":"At the end of section II of Realism vs Constructive Empiricism, Musgrave argues that Van Fraassen\u2019s treatment of the observable\/unobservable distinction verges on the incoherent and another topic in the assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>You are requested to write two essays on two topics. Details are listed below.<br \/>Topic 1: At the end of section II of Realism vs Constructive Empiricism, Musgrave argues that Van Fraassen\u2019s treatment of the observable\/unobservable distinction verges on the incoherent.\n<\/div>\n<div>1.\tExplain his reasoning. (35points)\n<\/div>\n<div>2.\tEvaluate his reasoning. (15 points total)\n<\/div>\n<div>a.\t You may either raise your own objection or raise and respond to your own objection. Your objection will be evaluated based on insight into the text and originality.<\/p>\n<p>Topic 2: In Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts, Cartwright argues that the fundamental laws of physics can either be true descriptions of facts or explanatory but not both.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>1.\tExplain her reasoning in Sections 0-2. (35points)\n<\/div>\n<div>2.\tEvaluate her reasoning (15 points total)\n<\/div>\n<div>a.\t You may either raise your own objection or raise and respond to your own objection. Your objection will be evaluated based on originality and insight into the text.\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are requested to write two essays on two topics. Details are listed below.Topic 1: At the end of section II of Realism vs Constructive Empiricism, Musgrave argues that Van Fraassen\u2019s treatment of the observable\/unobservable distinction verges on the incoherent. 1. Explain his reasoning. (35points) 2. Evaluate his reasoning. (15 points total) a. You may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[702],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}