Priority and Particle Physics: Ontic Structural Realism as a Fundamentality Thesis
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Priority and Particle Physics: Ontic Structural Realism as a Fundamentality Thesis
Talk of whether there exists a fundamental basis to the world pervades contemporary metaphysics. Increasingly prominent in the metaphysics literature are arguments as to whether the world resolves itself into a set of fundamental objects or whether, on the contrary, each object is composed of more fundamental objects ad infinitum.1 But there is a school of thought that takes it that, whatever i...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0007-0882,1464-3537
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axt017