Moderate structural realism about space-time.
Abstract This paper sets out a moderate version of metaphysical structural realism that stands in contrast to both the epistemic structural realism of Worrall and the—radical—ontic structural realism of French and Ladyman. According to moderate structural realism, objects and relations (structure)...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 160; no. 1; pp. 27 - 47 |
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