Sentences with phrase «simple cumulation»

I have also indicated that the occurrence of major paradigm shifts, rather than simple cumulation or convergence in the history of science, militates against naive realism.

Naive realism is untenable if models are not literal pictures of reality and if the history of science is characterized by major paradigm shifts rather than by simple cumulation or convergence.

Naive realism is not plausible if the history of science provides evidence of major paradigm shifts rather than simple cumulation and convergence.