%0 Journal Article
%T Partial Truth and Visual Evidence
%A Otš¢vio Bueno
%J Principia : an International Journal of Epistemology
%D 2011
%I Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil
%X Newton da Costa and Steven French have argued that the concept of partial truth plays an important role in our understanding of significant aspects of scientific practice: from the status of scientific theories through the understanding of inconsistency in science to the nature of induction (see da Costa and French 2003). In this paper, I use the concept of partial truth and the associated framework of partial structures to offer a formulation of the concept of visual evidence, and I examine some of the roles that this notion plays in scientific activity.
%K Partial truth
%K evidence
%K visual evidence
%K visualization
%K transparency
%U http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/1808-1711.2011v15n2p249/21042