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    Supports→The value-free ideal (VFI) has an important function for guiding scientific research and minimizing the impact of values on objective science, even if a strict separation of facts and values is impossible.

    The value-neutrality thesis (VNT) may be untenable and a strict separation of facts and values may be impossible.

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    According to the VFI, scientists should uncover an epistemic, value-free basis for resolving such disagreements and restrict the dissent to the realm of value judgments. Even if the VNT should turn out to be untenable, and a strict separation to be impossible, the VFI may have an important function for guiding scientific research and for minimizing the impact of values on an objective science. In the philosophy of science, one camp of scholars defends the VFI as a necessary antidote to individua

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