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˝For much of the past fifty years, logical positivism constituted the dominant tradition in the philosophy of science. Positivists attempted to impose restrictions on the content of scientific theories in order to ensure that they were empirically meaningful. Art effect of these restrictions was to limit both the claims to truth of theoretical sentences only distantly related to observation, and the claims to existence of unobservable theoretical entities. More recently positivism has come under such sustained attack that opposition to it has become almost orthodoxy in the philosophy of science. But a purely negative view cannot long command a consensus, and so following the demise of positivism the debate in the philosophy of science has shifted to its would-be successor, scientific realism...˝
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