Empirical incoherence and double functionalism.
Recent work on quantum gravity (QG) suggests that neither spacetime nor spatiotemporally located entites exist at a fundamental level. The loss of both brings with it the threat of empirical incoherence. A theory is empirically incoherent when the truth of that theory undermines the empirical justif...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 199; no. 2; pp. 413 - 440 |
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