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Instrumentalism
Meaning
Noun
●
In Philosophy:
In the
philosophy of science
, the
view
that
concepts
and
theories
are
merely
useful
instruments
whose
worth
is
measured
not by whether the
concepts
and
theories
are
true or false
(or
correctly
depict
reality
), but how effective they are in
explaining
and
predicting
phenomena.
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