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    Supports→Idealist and anti-realist philosophies of science are morally suspect, not merely intellectually mistaken.

    Instrumentalist philosophies of science, as Peirce warned, train practitioners to evaluate claims solely by human utility, displacing disinterested wonder with self-referential pragmatism.

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    Disinterested Wonder(what instrumentalism supposedly displaces)
    Curiosity and the desire to understand something for its own sake, without expecting to gain anything practical or personal from the knowledge.
    Instrumentalism (or Instrumentalist Philosophy)(describes a philosophy of science)
    The view that ideas, theories, and tools are only valuable if they're useful for achieving practical goals—like making money or solving problems—rather than for understanding truth itself.
    Peirce
    # Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) was an American philosopher and logician who developed influential ideas about how we understand meaning and truth. He is best known for creating pragmatism, a way of thinking that judges ideas by their practical effects rather than abstract theory, and for developing semiotics, the study of signs and how things carry meaning. His work remains important today in philosophy, logic, and even in computer science and linguistics.
    Philosophy of science(as used in the statement)

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    The branch of philosophy that examines how science works, what counts as scientific knowledge, and what science can and cannot tell us about reality.
    Self-referential Pragmatism(what replaces disinterested wonder in instrumentalist approaches)
    A way of thinking where you only care about what benefits you or your own goals, rather than pursuing knowledge because it's true or meaningful in itself.

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