Van Fraassen's constructive empiricism holds that empirical adequacy across observable trajectories suffices for confirmation, making state-underdetermination epistemically irrelevant.
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Bas van Fraassen is a contemporary philosopher who studies how we understand questions and knowledge. He developed influential ideas about how questions work and what it means to explain things.
confirmation(Christensen 1999: 441; general epistemological usage)
The epistemic relationship in which current confidence in proposition E helps make rational one's current confidence in hypothesis H
empirical adequacy(Distinguished from full accuracy in that the degree of accuracy required depends on pragmatic considerations)
The requirement that theories account for observations; a constraint that all legitimate research programs must satisfy