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When a theory is confronted by new phenomena, should every effort be made to give an account of these phenomena within the confines of that theory, or should the theory be amended so as to provide an account? Philosophy of science used to answer that the criterion of success of a theory is that it need not be amended to provide an account for new phenomena. But in a science’s growing stages, the practice is to amend theories as fast as new phenomena can be found.
Research for this paper was supported by Canada Council grant S71–0546.
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Van Fraassen, B.C. (1975). Incomplete Assertion and Belnap Connectives. In: Hockney, D., Harper, W., Freed, B. (eds) Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1756-5_3
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