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<journal-id>2007-2538</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Valenciana]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Valenciana]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2007-2538</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad de Guanajuato, Departamentos de Filosofía y de Letras Hispánicas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2007-25382018000100187</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15174/rv.v0i21.325</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La ciencia y el mundo físico de acuerdo a W. T. Stace]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Science and the physical world according to W.T. Stace]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Aboites]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Vicente]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Aboites]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gilberto]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila CISE ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>11</volume>
<numero>21</numero>
<fpage>187</fpage>
<lpage>205</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2007-25382018000100187&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2007-25382018000100187&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2007-25382018000100187&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Se presenta y expone el argumento de W. T. Stace sobre el realismo, señalando no que éste sea falso sino solamente que no hay absolutamente ninguna razón para considerar que sea verdadero y por tanto no tenemos por qué creerlo. En seguida esto se aplica a la discusión de la pregunta: ¿Cómo sabemos que los átomos existen? Para lo cual se hace referencia a algunas de las respuestas científicas más importantes conocidas que son en orden cronológico: 1) La ley de las proporciones definidas o Ley de Proust, 2) la teoría cinética de los gases, 3) el movimiento Browniano y, 4) imágenes de microscopio de efecto túnel. Concluyendo que, por remoto que parezca, existe la posibilidad lógica de que las no concebidas propuestas teóricas expliquen los resultados observacionales actuales sin requerir de la hipótesis atómica.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Here It´s presented and explained the argument of W.T. Stace about realism, pointing out not that this is false but only that there is absolutely no reason to consider it to be truth and therefore we don´t have to believe it. Immediately this is applied to the discussion of the question: How do we know atom sexist? In order to do this, reference is made to some of the most important known scientific answers which in chronological order are: 1) Proust Law of definite proportions, 2) kinetic gas theory, 3) Brownian motion, and, 4) Tunnel effect microscope images. It is concluded that, as remote as it may seem, there is a logical possibility that not yet imagined theoretical proposals may be able to explain the current observational results without requiring the atomic hypothesis.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[W.T. Stace]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[filosofía de la ciencia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[teoría atómica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[W.T. Stace]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Philosophy of science]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Atomic theory]]></kwd>
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