%0 Journal Article
%T Scientific Representation and Realism
%A Michel Ghins
%J Principia : an International Journal of Epistemology
%D 2011
%I Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil
%X After a brief presentation of what I take to be the representational d¨¦marche in science, I stress the fundamental role of true judgements in model construction. The success and correctness of a representation rests on the truth of judgements which attribute properties to real targeted entities, called ¡°ontic judgements¡±. I then present what van Fraassen calls ¡°the Loss of Reality objection¡±. After criticizing his dissolution of the objection, I offer an alternative way of answering the Loss of Reality objection by showing that the contact of our models with reality is grounded on the truth of ontic judgements. I conclude by examining.
%K Representation
%K realism
%K van Fraassen
%K model
%K judgements.
%U http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/1808-1711.2011v15n3p461/22390