The Puercan Peradectes offers a new factual reference point for the timescale of marsupial and therian evolution.
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Should we be thinking instead about description, factual reference, the place of history, and the methods of science?
The term "literary works" does not connote any criterion of literary merit or qualitative value: it includes catalogs, directories, and similar factual, reference, or instructional works and compilations of data.
This surplus meaning he considered to consist in the "factual reference" of theoretical terms (ibid., p. 48).
Therefore, Feigl urged that "we must distinguish between the radical empiricist's meaning of 'meaning' (i.e., epistemic reduction) and another, more common-sensical meaning of 'meaning' (factual reference)" (ibid., p. 49).
Consequently, the mind-independence of the 'factual referents' of theoretical terms seems to be secured by the very reference relation itself: the existence of theoretical entities like atoms is obviously implied by the independent reference of theoretical terms like 'atom.' Moreover, Feigl's account of factual reference is intimately linked with the concept of truth.
Hempel, for instance, had argued that the notion of the reference of theoretical terms is "unnecessary" because it "can be eliminated, by means of Feigl's own criterion of factual reference" (Hempel 1950b, p. 173), namely the systematic interconnections between theoretical statements on the one hand and observations sentences on the other.
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