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    It is not the case that Realism regarding the putative target of detection is well-supported when distinct modes of detection reveal the same thing.

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    • 1.Distinct detection methods often share theoretical assumptions, so their convergence may reflect common theory rather than a mind-independent target.
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    • 2.Van Fraassen's constructive empiricism holds that empirical adequacy, not ontological convergence, is the proper epistemic goal of science.
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    • 3.What appears as independent confirmation can be the coordinated projection of a single theoretical framework onto multiple instruments.
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    • 1.Laudan's pessimistic meta-induction shows that historically successful convergent detections have repeatedly pointed to entities later abandoned (caloric, phlogiston, the ether).
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    • 2.If past convergent detection repeatedly failed to track real entities, the inference from convergence to realism is inductively undermined.
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    • 1.One and the same thing is apparently revealed by distinct modes of detection.
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    • 2.It would be an extraordinary coincidence if the supposed target of these revelations did not exist.
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