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    Challenges→A purely descriptive causal-functional account preserves scientific objectivity that hybrid causal-evaluative accounts systematically undermine.

    Scientific objectivity requires representing what is actually true about phenomena; if evaluative properties are real features of human contexts, excluding them undermines accuracy.

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    Key Terms

    Accuracy(as used in evaluating whether communities remember things truthfully)
    The quality of being correct, precise, and true to what actually happened.
    Evaluative properties(in epistemology and ethics)
    Qualities that involve making judgments about whether something is good, bad, better, or worse—as opposed to just describing what something factually is.
    Human contexts(as used in philosophy)
    The specific situations, relationships, and environments that humans actually live in and care about.
    Real features(as used in metaphysics)
    Actual characteristics or aspects of something that exist independently, rather than being just opinions or made up.
    Scientific objectivity(as used in philosophy of science)

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    The idea that science should describe things as they actually are, without letting personal opinions or feelings change what scientists report as facts.
    phenomena(Distinguished from data in the context of scientific explanation)
    The targets of scientific learning, inferred from data rather than identical to data itself

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