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I like this! This seems to (at least conceivably, to me) have little bearing on the ontological status of the entities of scientific research though…

Well the implications boil down to epistemological warrant of scientific discourse. Positing entities is dumb. Science discursively creates them for the purpose of communicating experimental results and establishing theories, but where do we go from there?

Confession: I adopt a rabidly anti-realist posture around my engineer friends, mostly because it infuriates them to the point of throwing things.

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5. autochthones said: Science may discursively create a scientific perception of an object but that doesn’t mean it only exists in the discourse of science. Right? (I would easily argue this) I guess I’m just wondering what the pragmatic aim is here?