A Comment on ‘Cosmology and Convention’ by David Merritt

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Man Ho Chan
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[1] The Education University of Hong Kong,Department of Science and Environmental Studies
来源：
Journal for General Philosophy of Science | 2019年 / 50卷
关键词：
Dark matter; Dark energy; Cosmology; Conventionalism;
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摘要：
In a recent article Merritt (2017) has claimed that current observational data provide “severe tests” falsifying the standard cosmological model (the Lambda-Cold-Dark-Matter model). Based on Popper’s idea of conventionalism, he concludes that the introduction of some essential components of the standard cosmological model—including dark matter and dark energy—are a consequence of conventionalist stratagems. In this article, I provide more recent discoveries and discussions showing that the standard cosmological model is not built on any conventionalist stratagem.
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