Two Wrongs Make One Right
History and Philosophy of Physics
2025-10-07 v1
Abstract
An influential argument for scientific realism posits that, if scientific theories were not true, their empirical success would be a coincidence. Here, I show that the false Drude's theory succeeds in explaining the Wiedemann-Franz law by coincidence--a fortuitous compensation of errors.
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@article{arxiv.2510.04962,
title = {Two Wrongs Make One Right},
author = {Michele Pizzochero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.04962},
year = {2025}
}