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• Title:
  Can We Test Inconsistent Empirical Theories?
• Creator:
  Bartolo Alegre, Luis Felipe
• Description:
  Despite the logical possibility and alleged existence of inconsistent empirical theories, the problem of their testability remains largely unexplored. I develop a testability criterion which makes some of these theories testable, including some observationally inconsistent ones. However, they are not rejectable qua inconsistent by this criterion. These results, while opening the domain of scientific theories to inconsistent ones, challenge the prospects of dialetheism in the philosophy of science.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre
• Date:
  2025.05.25
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Online First Articles; 1-45;
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Prace online; 1-45;
  2300-9802;
  1425-3305
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/46120/42653
• Subject:
  paraconsistency;
  dialetheism;
  ; trivialism;
  proposal;
  rejection
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/46120
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text