This thinker argued that because theoretical statements are not translatable into statements about the immediate objects of experience without a loss of meaningful content, "descriptivist" interpretations of theories inevitably collapse into "instrumentalist" interpretations.
This thinker argued that because theoretical statements are not translatable into statements about the immediate objects of experience without a loss of meaningful content, "descriptivist" interpretations of theories inevitably collapse into "instrumentalist" interpretations. One of this thinker's papers posits that "persistence" and "plasticity" are the two essential criteria of goal-directed processes. When a target theory includes terms not included in the base theory from which it was reduced, it produces what this thinker called a "heterogeneous reduction." This author of Teleology Revisited argued that vocabularies from distinct scienti c theories could be linked by bi-conditional "coordinating de nitions" producing what he called "bridge laws" in The Structure of Science. For 10 points, name this foremost 20th-century analytical philosopher of science, who shares his last name with the author of Mind and Cosmos and "What is it Like to Be a Bat?"
This thinker argued that because theoretical statements are not translatable into statements about the immediate objects of experience without a loss of meaningful content, "descriptivist" interpretations of theories inevitably collapse into "instrumentalist" interpretations.
Ernest Nagel [do not accept "Thomas Nagel"]