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    It is not the case that Without a viable notion of truthlikeness, retaining truth as the goal of inquiry makes partial progress towards it virtually impossible.

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    • 1.Kuhn and Laudan argue that historical science shows progressive problem-solving capacity without requiring inter-theoretic truth-distance comparisons.
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    • 2.Laudan's Problem-Solving Model explicitly replaces truth-approximation with empirical problem scope as the criterion of scientific progress.
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    • 3.If progress is adequately explained by problem-solving models, the claim that truthlikeness is necessary for progress is falsified by the historical record.
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    • 1.Pragmatist accounts (Dewey, James) ground scientific progress in problem-solving efficacy and predictive success, not proximity to a mind-independent truth.
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    • 2.A theory can demonstrably improve inquiry outcomes without any formal metric of distance from truth being invocable.
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    • 1.Partial progress towards truth requires a viable notion of distance from the truth.
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    • 2.If no viable notion of truthlikeness exists, there is no way to measure partial progress towards truth.
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