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    It is not the case that False models serve a legitimate epistemic function in science

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    • 1.Epistemic legitimacy requires that a representation reliably tracks truth; a model known to be false cannot reliably track truth.
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    • 2.If false models produce true conclusions, this success is accidental rather than epistemically grounded, constituting luck rather than knowledge.
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    • 3.Epistemic luck, as argued by Pritchard, is incompatible with genuine epistemic function even when true beliefs result.
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    • 1.Van Fraassen's constructive empiricism holds that science aims at empirical adequacy, not truth; false models are thus not legitimate but merely tolerated instrumentally.
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    • 2.A representation that is instrumentally useful but known false conflates pragmatic value with epistemic value, collapsing a distinction essential to scientific realism.
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    Reasons Against

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    • False models can be used as means to arrive at true theories
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