Quantization and the Preservation of Structure across Theory Change.

This article presents a novel sense in which theoretical structure has been preserved across the transition from classical to quantum physics. I import mathematical tools from category theory that have been used for structural comparisons in the context of theoretical equivalence and apply these too...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 92; no. 2; pp. 259 - 285
Autor principal: Feintzeig, Benjamin
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Apr2025
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