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Priority and Particle Physics: Ontic Structural Realism as a Fundamentality Thesis [PDF]
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2014 In this article, I address concerns that the ontological priority claims definitive of ontic structural realism are as they stand unclear, and I do so by placing these claims on a more rigorous formal footing than they typically have been hitherto. I first of all argue that Kit Fine’s analysis of ontological dependence furnishes us with an ontological ...
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Structural Realism or Modal Empiricism? [PDF]
, 2017 Structural realism has been suggested as the best compromise in the debate on scientific realism. It proposes that we should be realist about the relational structure of the world, not its nature.
Ruyant, Quentin
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, 2016 This essay is about how the notion of “structure” in ontic structuralism might be made precise. More specifically, my aim is to make precise the idea that the structure of the world is (somehow) given by the relations inhering in the world, in such a way
Dewar, Neil
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Wavefunction realism does not 'privilege position'. [PDF]
Synthese, 2022 Schroeren D.
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Zagadnienia holizmu w kontekście relacjonizmu i strukturalizmu [PDF]
, 2016 Two positions in which the mode of existence of Spacetime is considered are reconstructed — relationism and structuralism (I discuss the version of structuralism one can find in the so-called Ontic Structural Realism).
Luty, Damian
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On "Decisions and Revisions Which a Minute Will Reverse": Consciousness, The Unconscious and Mathematical Modeling of Thinking. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2021 Plotnitsky A.
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Epistemology of General Relativity [PDF]
For Einstein, simplicity is the main criterion in the theoretical choice when the experiments and observations do not give sufficiently clear indications .
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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The Benacerraf Problem as a Challenge for Ontic Structural Realism†
Philosophia Mathematica, 2019 ABSTRACTBenacerraf has presented two problems for the philosophy of mathematics. These are the problem of identification and the problem of representation. This paper aims to reconstruct the latter problem and to unpack its undermining bearing on the version of Ontic Structural Realism that frames scientific representations in terms of abstract ...
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"Yet Once More": The Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Discontinuity. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2022 Plotnitsky A.
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