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The world we speak of, and the language we live in
Professor Fraassen discusses how natural language is limited, and discusses paradoxes within the natural language, within scientific realism & empiricism.
"Suppose for a moment that there exists, or comes into being in the historical fulness of time, a language L so rich that every proposition is expressed by some sentence of L. Now draw a rectangle, and consider the proposition - call it Pandora - that no sentence of L ever written in the rectangle expresses a true proposition." -
Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective
Within the article are three sections. Representation; whereas "there is no
representation except in the sense that some things are used, made, or taken, to represent some
things as thus or so." the problem of Coordination; in which the article talks of measurements of physical aspects, came to the conclusion that pure or presuppositionless coordination is neither
possible nor required. Structuralism in the philosophy of science; where it discusses how structuralism is important to empiricism. -
Misdirection and Misconception in the Scientific Realism Debates
"The scientific realism debates have been plagued by misrepresentations of both realist and empiricist positions, sometimes by their adherents as well as by their critics. When positions are presented as contraries, there must be an isolatable question to which each gives its answer, in opposition to the other."
I found this article dove deeply into not only the views of empirical scientists, but made sure to explain the views of those working in Scientific Realism. (Linked in credits) -
Constructive Empiricism
"The constructive empiricist holds that science aims at truth about observable aspects of the world, but that science does not aim at truth about unobservable aspects. the constructive empiricist holds that as far as belief is concerned, acceptance of a scientific theory involves only the belief that the theory is empirically adequate."
The article phrases this better than I ever could. -
Credits
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323228153_THE_WORLD_WE_SPEAK_OF_AND_THE_LANGUAGE_WE_LIVE_IN
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312754618_The_Manifest_Image_and_the_Scientific_Image
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343376770_Scientific_Representation_Paradoxes_of_Perspective
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314710986_Misdirection_and_Misconception_in_the_Scientific_Realism_Debates
https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2017/entries/constructive-empiricism/