What’s it take to interpret a physical theory?
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What’s it take to interpret a physical theory? The question is ambiguous. In one sense it asks what it takes to be an interpretation of a physical theory; that is, what qualifies an intellectual offering as an interpretation of a theory. In another sense, it asks what it takes to construct an interpretation of a physical theory; that is, what resources are fair game for articulating an offering satisfying the qualifying criteria. I believe that a fairly widespread (although often implicit) answer to the question in its first sense is:
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تاریخ انتشار 2007