2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2008.03.015
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Revealing the analytical structure and some intrinsic major difficulties of the contingentist/inevitabilist issue

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“…What exactly do the conflicting interpretations state and what is their disagreement about? At present, the most pronounced attempts to define the philosophical positions of "contingentism" and "inevitabilism" in a systematic manner come from Ian Hacking (1999Hacking ( , 2000 and Léna Soler (2008aSoler ( , 2008b. Their strategies for arriving at a rigorous understanding of the issue differ markedly.…”
Section: The Challenge Of Definitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…What exactly do the conflicting interpretations state and what is their disagreement about? At present, the most pronounced attempts to define the philosophical positions of "contingentism" and "inevitabilism" in a systematic manner come from Ian Hacking (1999Hacking ( , 2000 and Léna Soler (2008aSoler ( , 2008b. Their strategies for arriving at a rigorous understanding of the issue differ markedly.…”
Section: The Challenge Of Definitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…And yet, some commentators have pointed out that it may be hard, or perhaps even impossible, to settle the conflict on the basis of evidence from the actual history of science (Soler, 2008b;Trizio, 2008, 257e258). As I will show in the following, these commentators are right.…”
Section: The Challenge Of Decidabilitymentioning
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