Categorizations qua conventions: measuring the arbitrariness of scientific categorization.
Researchers organize the world around them into categories. Their choices in categorizing a phenomenon of interest are never only determined by the area under consideration: there is flexibility in (amongst other things) scientists' choices of category boundaries, number of categories, and rules for...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 182; no. 11/12; pp. 3181 - 3202 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2025
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