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<p>Created page with &quot;Karl Popper defined instrumentalism as follows: {{Quote| By instrumentalism I mean the doctrine that a scientific theory... should be interpreted as an instrument, and &#039;&#039;noth...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Karl Popper defined instrumentalism as follows:<br /> <br /> {{Quote|<br /> By instrumentalism I mean the doctrine that a scientific theory... should be interpreted as an instrument, and &#039;&#039;nothing but an instrument&#039;&#039;, for the deduction of predictions of future events (especially measurements) and for other practical applications; and more specifically, that a scientific theory should not be interpreted as a genuine conjecture about the structure of the world, or as a genuine attempt to describe certain aspects of our world. The instrumentalist doctrine implies that scientific theories can be more or less useful, and more or less efficient; but it denies that they can, like descriptive statements, be true or false.<br /> <br /> - Popper 1983, 111-12<br /> }}</div>

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