Are Newtonian Gravitation and Geometrized Newtonian Gravitation Theoretically Equivalent?
I argue that a criterion of theoretical equivalence due to Glymour (Noûs 11(3):227-251, 1977) does not capture an important sense in which two theories may be equivalent. I then motivate and state an alternative criterion that does capture the sense of equivalence I have in mind. The principal claim...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 81; no. 5; pp. 1073 - 1092 |
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