Nolan, Daniel2015-12-132015-12-130020-174Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/76101Abstract: Many people want to hold that some theoretical virtues—simplicity, elegance, familiarity or others—are only pragmatic virtues. That is, these features do not give us any more reason to think a theory is true, or close to true, but they justiThe Dangers of Pragmatic Virtue201410.1080/0020174X.2014.9678062015-12-11