Particles, fields, and the ontology of the standard model.
In this work we discuss issues of ontological commitment towards one of the most important examples of contemporary fundamental science: the standard model of particle physics. We present a new form of selective structural realism, which uses as its basis the distinction between what have been calle...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 201; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19 |
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Springer Nature
Jan2023
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