Physical Magnitudes.
Scientific properties come in degrees: elephants are more massive than mice. Are facts like these fundamental or can they be explained in other terms? This article argues that the structure of physical quantities like mass reduces to facts about the role that mass plays in the laws of nature. On thi...
| Publicado en: | Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 99; no. 4; pp. 817 - 842 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2018
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