Experimentation and Scientific Realism by Ian Hacking

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Original article, Philosophical Topics 13(1), 1982, pp. 71–87. The opening distinguishes experimental entities used as tools from belief in the truth of whole theories. A related chapter appears in the 1983 book Representing and Intervening; its pagination is different.

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