ABSTRACT
The instrumentalistic fictionalist or "instrumentalist" does not propose to eliminate the non-E portion of science, but simply to treat it differently from the E-portion. Corresponding to the attributions, fictionalist may in fact propose alternative expressions to be applied to non-E theories. He may, for example, ask whether such theories are of scientific interest, whether they hold or fail, whether they are supported or violated, useful or not, adopted, held, employed or abandoned, rejected, revised. Though, like all fictionalists, the instrumentalist holds that a uniformly significant E is not capable of absorbing all of science as a de facto body of doctrine, he is able to make a weaker affirmation, that is he can say that E as he construes it is capable of expressing all genuine assertions or beliefs contained in the body of science.
