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  • Aristotle
    philosophy of science
    / Early arguments for realism

    …argument by the American philosopher Grover Maxwell (1918–81), who noted that the concept of the observable varies with the range of available devices: many people are unable to observe much without interposing pieces of glass (or plastic) between their eyes and the world; more can be observed if one uses…

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    …argument by the American philosopher Grover Maxwell (1918–81), who noted that the concept of the observable varies with the range of available devices: many people are unable to observe much without interposing pieces of glass (or plastic) between their eyes and the world; more can be observed if one uses…

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