Mathematical Language and the Changing Concept of Physical Reality

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110664737-010" target="_blank" >10.1515/9783110664737-010</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Mathematical Language and the Changing Concept of Physical Reality
Original language description
Structural realism is an answer to the challenge posed for realism by the argument from the pessimistic meta-induction (Laudan 1981). It attempts to combine scientific realism with the existence of scientific revolutions in arguing that the mathematical structure of a scientific theory is preserved in the course of a scientific revolution. Structural realists maintain that this structure is the basis of the theory’s grip on reality. In the present paper I argue in favor of structural realism by addressing the questions of why the mathematical structure of a theory should be preserved and what kind of mathematical structure is actually preserved.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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