A minimal metaphysics of thin-objects and nomic structure.
A minimal realist thinks we are justified in believing in unobservable entities as explanatory, but we should be cautious in allowing non-empirically justified entities in our ontology. In this paper I argue that a minimalist would find my proposal for an ontology of fundamental entities without fun...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 206; no. 2; pp. 1 - 29 |
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Aug2025
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