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Are There No Things That are Scientific Theories? [PDF]
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2011 AbstractThe ontological status of theories themselves has recently re-emerged as a live topic in the philosophy of science.
French, S., Vickers, P.
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Universe, 2023 It is advisable to avoid and, even better, demystify such grandiose terms as “infinity” or “singularity” in the description of the cosmos. Its proliferation does not positively contribute to the understanding of key concepts that are essential for an ...
Emilio Elizalde
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Scientific Theories as Intervening Representations [PDF]
THEORIA, 2006 In this paper we use some ideas of Hertz and Duhem to propose a new concept of representation that overcomes the dichotomy between representation and intervention. It is based on the category-theoretical notion of adjoint situations and is used to explain the relation between empirical facts and theoretical laws in a new way.
Ibarra Unzueta, Joseba Andoni +1 more
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A scientific theory of ars memoriae : spatial view cells in a continuous attractor network with linked items [PDF]
, 2017 The art of memory (ars memoriae) used since classical times includes using a well-known scene to associate each view or part of the scene with a different item in a speech.
Rolls, Edmund T.
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Scientific Methodology: A View from Early String Theory [PDF]
, 2018 This paper addresses the question as to whether the methodology followed in building and assessing string theory can be considered scientific in the same sense, say, that the methodology followed in building and assessing the Standard Model of particle ...
Castellani, Elena
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The urban wooden house and its fate
Проект Байкал, 2021 Wooden architecture is regarded as a basis for Russian cultural identity. A short journey into the history of its preservation is made. The design and practical experiences of Irkutsk, Tomsk, Nyandoma and Tallinn are viewed as contemporary examples of ...
Мария Нащокина
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Krigsførelsens Kredsløb i et videnskabsteoretisk perspektiv – teorier, modeller og virkelighed
Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 2020 The Capability Cycle is a model that can be used to structure thinking about military capability. If, however, the intent is to analyze or explain specific problems scientifically, it needs to be linked with theory.
Søren Sjøgren
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Old industrial architecture XXI: Two approaches
Проект Байкал, 2022 The article reviews projects of reconstruction of historical monuments of industrial architecture, which were worked out in Moscow during the last two decades.
Мария Нащокина
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Justifying the Special Theory of Relativity with Unconceived Methods [PDF]
, 2018 Many realists argue that present scientific theories will not follow the fate of past scientific theories because the former are more successful than the latter.
A Chakravartty +29 more
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Racionalidad de la inducción como minimización entrópica
Scientia et Fides, 2016 Rationality of induction as entropic minimizationIn favour of a fundamental aspect of the epistemology of Mariano Artigas –his commitment to the quest for truth on the part of the scientific theory– I argue about the rationality of the process of ...
Ignacio Sols
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