Two Wrongs Make One Right
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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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| institution | arXiv |
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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 |