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Preferring Ontic Structural Realism over Epistemic Structural Realism in Light of Semantically Interpreted Theories

open access: yesStudia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
The aims of the article are related to comparing two versions of structural realism: epistemic structural realism (ESR) and ontic structural realism (OSR). My main goal is to argue for the following: (i) the mature version of ESR admits, despite its declarative agnosticism, a weak metaphysical thesis regarding natural kinds; (ii) this thesis is ...
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Radical ontic structural realism as a structuralist existence monism

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Abstract Radical ontic structural realism (ROSR) argues that structure is all that there is and that objects are metaphysically eliminable. By making such claims, ROSR is widely considered metaphysically obscure. To address this, I propose a novel characterisation of ROSR, drawing on two metaphysical concepts: existence monism, attributed to ...
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