Pseudonous
Ignore the reference to phenomenalism. I was just signalling that I was in vaguely familiar territory (or so I thought).
I take it for granted that truth is a prerequisite of knowledge. Can you explain what is involved in the truth of a statement about a scientific model? Apparently the statement 'Evolution began billions of years ago' (taken as a statement about a scientific model) isn't true if and only if (using ordinary language) evolution began billions of years ago, or else it would be a description of the past. And apparently it isn't true if and only if (using ordinary language) there is and will be such-and-such a fossil record, or else it would be a description of the present and future. I'm not being awkward here: I really don't know what sort of beast a scientific model is supposed to be.
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