John D. Norton
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small-e empiricism is a version of empiricism adapted to modern science. It abandons the inductive skepticism of Big-E Empiricism and represents experience as a physical process, human or instrumental, that connects continuously with the system of interest. | e small-e empiricism. Download draft chapters. |
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This short note reviews briefly how the fallibility of inductive inference in small-e empiricism makes truth opaque. Once truth is no longer a condition for knowlege, Gettier cases cease to be troublesome and turn out to be celebrated as important discoveries in the progress of science. | Download |