Isn’t instrumental correctness all that really matters? We might think so, but this is not true. How would Pluto’s existence been predicted under an epicycles conceptualisation? How would we have thought about space travel under such a conceptualisation?
Your counterexamples don’t seem apposite to me. Out of sample predictive ability strikes me as an instrumental good.
Your counterexamples don’t seem apposite to me. Out of sample predictive ability strikes me as an instrumental good.