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What does instrumentalism mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) In the philosophy of science, the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.
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And that verse breaks down to a bridge of more spacey instrumentalism and a bass drum keeping time to spastically bending strings.
That said, the instrumentalism alone on this album makes it a good listen.
Science, for all its instrumentalism, is not, at its best, in conflict with aesthetics but in conspiracy with it.
According to instrumentalism, theoretical science is no more than a complicated instrument for making predictions about the observable, physical world.
Dewey's instrumentalism rests upon a very special psychological interpretation, which puts action first and thought second.
Plato's idealism regarding perfect Forms is linked to a type of instrumentalism.

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