Towards a theory of universes: structure theory and the mathematical universe hypothesis.
The maturation of the physical image has made apparent the limits of our scientific understanding of fundamental reality. These limitations serve as motivation for a new form of metaphysical inquiry that restricts itself to broadly scientific methods. Contributing towards this goal we combine the ma...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 194; no. 2; pp. 571 - 592 |
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