Scientific explanation, accordingly, can be understood as an activity of mind that forces the activity of self-conception to renegotiate its original alliance with appearances—particularly the appearance of how the world that appears for mi…The idea of a general convergent progress of science is based on the analysis of the structure and dynamics of scientific theories (the theory-ladenness of all sciences). According to Stegmüller, the conviction of a convergent and uniform p…At the level of the micrological analysis of stable cores concerning formally constructed and inferentially related sentences or classes of sentences, the reducibility fails to be nonarbitrary or general. And at the level of the macrologica…
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