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Studying Controversies: Unification, Contradiction, Integration

机译：研究争议：统一，矛盾，融合

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My aim here is to show that approximate truth as a paraconsistent notion (neutral to the realism/anti-realism debate) can be successfully incorporated into the analysis of scientific unification, thus advancing towards a more realistic representation of theory development that takes into account the controversies that often loom alongside the progress of research programmes. I support my analysis with a case study of the recent debate in ecology centred around the existence of the paradox of enrichment and the controversy between ecological models of predation that employ prey-dependent and ratio-dependent functional responses. These models were initially proposed as equally good representations of the basic aspects of predator-prey dynamics. However, both models generated inconsistent observational consequences and, therefore, introduced a contradiction within predator-prey theory. I argue that by accepting these models as approximately true representations of predator-prey dynamics we can convey how the available observational data have been successfully systematized in a consistent way under them. This first step in resolving the controversy relied on building a series of contrastive arguments based on both models' derivations about population dynamics and the available empirical data. The heightening of this contrast between the models, in turn, was also essential in defining a limiting function which can be used to integrate both models and reach a new unified expression of predator-prey dynamics.
机译：我的目的是表明，近似真理作为超一致性概念（对现实主义/反现实主义辩论而言是中立的）可以成功地纳入科学统一的分析中，从而朝着考虑到理论发展的理论发展迈进更为现实的表现。与研究计划的进展常常并存的争议。我以最近关于生态学辩论的案例研究为中心来支持我的分析，该论证集中在富人悖论的存在和采用依赖猎物和依赖比率的功能性反应的捕食生态模型之间的争议之间。这些模型最初是作为捕食者—猎物动力学基本方面的同样良好的表示而提出的。但是，这两个模型都产生了不一致的观测结果，因此在“捕食者－猎物”理论中引入了一个矛盾。我认为，通过接受这些模型作为捕食者—猎物动力学的近似真实表示，我们可以传达如何在其下以一致的方式成功地将可用的观测数据系统化。解决争议的第一步是基于两个模型关于人口动态的推导和可用的经验数据，建立一系列对比性的论据。反过来，两个模型之间这种对比的增强对于定义可用于集成两个模型并获得捕食者-猎物动力学的新统一表达的限制功能也至关重要。

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