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    It is not the case that Unlike early modern critics of scholastic metaphysical concepts, Wright did not claim that scientific concepts are by comparison clear and simple.

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    • 1.Ernst Mach and early Bridgman argued that scientific concepts are operationally defined, grounding their meaning in concrete, reproducible procedures.
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    • 2.Operationalism entails that scientific concepts are clearer than scholastic metaphysical concepts precisely because their application conditions are publicly specifiable.
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    • 3.If Wright denies this asymmetry, he must explain why operationist accounts of scientific definition systematically fail, which he does not do.
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    • 1.Logical positivists like Carnap explicitly held that scientific concepts, unlike metaphysical ones, are empirically verifiable and thus cognitively meaningful.
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    • 2.If scientific concepts are defined by their verifiability conditions, they possess a clarity metaphysical concepts structurally lack, contradicting Wright's parity claim.
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    • Theoretical entities in modern science can be hard to represent to ourselves due to the limitations of our conceptions to perceptible forms and properties.
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