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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Black swan theory	4,564
2	Uniformitarianism	1,294
3	Scientism	434
4	Instrumentalism	404
5	Postpositivism	306
6	Anti-realism	284
7	Scientific realism	259
8	Verificationism	232
9	Cartesianism	163
10	Conventionalism	143
11	Confirmation holism	130
12	Inductivism	74
13	Constructive empiricism	55
14	Received view of theories	55
15	Semantic view of theories	51
16	Tychism	32
17	Scientific formalism	31
18	Newtonianism	25
19	Scientific pluralism	21
20	Structuralism (philosophy of science)	14
21	Inductionism	9
22	Positivistic animism	6
23	Contextual empiricism	less than 5 views

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