The applicability of mathematics to physical modality.
This paper argues that scientific realism commits us to a metaphysical determination relation between the mathematical entities that are indispensible to scientific explanation and the modal structure of the empirical phenomena those entities explain. The argument presupposes that scientific realism...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 194; no. 9; pp. 3361 - 3378 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2017
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