There have been many objections to the indispensability argument, including Charles Parsons' (1980) concern that the obviousness of basic mathematical statements is left unaccounted for by the Quinean picture and Philip Kitcher's (1984, pp. 104 105) worry that the indispensability argument doesn't explain why mathematics is indispensable to science.
Technology- Computers have become nearly indispensable in science research today.
According to Lewis, Humean supervenience faces only one serious challenge: objective chance, or propensity, a notion that Lewis thought was indispensable to science.
After 4.5 years, the indispensable climate science site will go black, it says.
That is, he suggests that despite appearances mathematics is not indispensable to science.
So one way of applying the PoI leads to inductive skepticism, the other yields the inductive optimism that seems so indispensable to science and daily life.
From the rather remarkable but seemingly uncontroversial fact that mathematics is indispensable to science, some philosophers have drawn serious metaphysical conclusions.
According to the deflationary nominalist, it is perfectly consistent to insist that mathematical theories are indispensable to science, to assert that mathematical and scientific theories are true, and to deny that mathematical objects exist.
At the basis of explication is an appeal to something (well-confirmed generalizations) whose epistemic credentials are unassailable, indispensable to science, and, crucially, independent of intuitive conceptual content.
While tools are indispensable for conducting science, they are not considered as part of the outputs of science, which consist of validated models.
