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...

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Publicado en:	Synthese Vol. 198; no. 5; pp. 4315 - 4331
Autores principales:	Suñé, Abel, Martínez, Manolo
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature May2021
Materias:	Oxford University Press Patternmaking Scientific method Kolmogorov complexity Compressibility Metaphysics
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