An invitation to approximate symmetry, with three applications to intertheoretic relations.
Merely approximate symmetry is mundane enough in physics that one rarely finds any explication of it. Among philosophers it has also received scant attention compared to exact symmetries. Herein I invite further consideration of this concept that is so essential to the practice of physics and interp...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 5; pp. 4811 - 4832 |
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May2021
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