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Logical empiricist and related reconstructions of theoretical knowledge: The partial interpretation account of theories -- Carnap on Ramsey sentences and the explicit definition of theoretical terms -- A proposal of David Lewis and two theorems of John Winnie -- Putnam's model-theoretic argument -- Ramsey on Russell's analysis of matter and the partial interpretation of theories -- Constructive empiricism and partial interpretation -- 2. Molecular reality: The molecular hypothesis -- Molecular reality and Brownian motion -- The nature and status of Perrin's "connecting link" -- Perrin's argument for molecular reality -- Thomson and the constitution of cathode rays -- 3. Poincaré on the theories of modern physics: Poincaré on "true relations" -- Robustness versus consilience -- Poincaré and scientific realism -- Russell and Poincaré -- 4. Quantum reality: Bohr on the primacy of classical concepts -- Complementarity, completeness, and Einstein's "local realism" -- Bell's theorem and Einstein's local realism -- Quantum mechanics and reality.