Real patterns and indispensability.
While scientific inquiry crucially relies on the extraction of patterns from data, we still have a far from perfect understanding of the metaphysics of patterns—and, in particular, of what makes a pattern real. In this paper we derive a criterion of real-patternhood from the notion of conditional Ko...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 5; pp. 4315 - 4331 |
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