Mathematical Structure and Empirical Content
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Mathematical Structure and Empirical Content
Approaches to the interpretation of physical theories provide accounts of how physical meaning accrues to the mathematical structure of a theory. According to many standard approaches to interpretation, meaning relations are captured by maps from the mathematical structure of the theory to statements expressing its empirical content. In this paper I argue that while such accounts adequately add...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0007-0882,1464-3537
DOI: 10.1086/714814