Two Wrongs Make One Right

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Auteur principal: Pizzochero, Michele
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author Pizzochero, Michele
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contents An influential argument for scientific realism posits that, if scientific theories were not true, their empirical success would be a coincidence. Here, I show that the false Drude's theory succeeds in explaining the Wiedemann-Franz law by coincidence--a fortuitous compensation of errors.
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spellingShingle Two Wrongs Make One Right
Pizzochero, Michele
History and Philosophy of Physics
An influential argument for scientific realism posits that, if scientific theories were not true, their empirical success would be a coincidence. Here, I show that the false Drude's theory succeeds in explaining the Wiedemann-Franz law by coincidence--a fortuitous compensation of errors.
title Two Wrongs Make One Right
topic History and Philosophy of Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04962