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On the Existence of Spacetime Structure [PDF]
, 2014 I examine the debate between substantivalists and relationalists about the ontological character of spacetime and conclude it is not well posed. I argue that the so-called Hole Argument does not bear on the debate, because it provides no clear criterion ...
Curiel, E.
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Making Sense of the Mental Universe [PDF]
, 2017 In 2005, an essay was published in Nature asserting that the universe is mental and that we must abandon our tendency to conceptualize observations as things.
Kastrup, Bernardo
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Instantiation in Trope Theory [PDF]
, 2018 The concept of instantiation is realized differently across a variety of metaphysical theories. A certain realization of the concept in a given theory depends on what roles are specified and associated with the concept and its corresponding term as well ...
Fisher, A. R. J.
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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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Theoretical terms and the ontic structural realism
, 2021 Bu çalışmanın ana amacı bilimsel gerçekçiliğin anti-realist itirazlara rağmen hala savunmaya değer bir görüş olduğunu göstermektir, çünkü ?realist iddialar? olmadan bilim yapmak olanaklı değildir. Bu çalışmanın ikinci amacı gerçekçiliğin yeni biçimlerinin anti-realistlerin haklı itirazlarına ne derece tatminkar cevaplar verdiğinin araştırılmasıdır. Ana
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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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Is the world made of loops? [PDF]
, 2018 I see no good reason to prefer (any version I know of) the `holonomy interpretation' to the `potential interpretation' of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Everyone agrees that the inverse image $[A]=[A+d\lambda]_{\lambda}=d^{-1}F$ of the electromagnetic field ...
Afriat, Alexander
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Wavefunction realism does not 'privilege position'. [PDF]
Synthese, 2022 Schroeren D.
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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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