Patches, Patchworks, and Epsilon Terms: A Neo-Carnapian Account of Theoretical Terms in Science.
In the last decades, scientific laws and concepts have been increasingly conceptualized as a patchwork of contextual and indeterminate entities. These patchwork constructions are sometimes claimed to be incompatible with traditional views of scientific theories and concepts, but it is difficult to a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1495 - 1518 |
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