The Ontology of Patterns in Empirical Data.
This article defends the following claims. First, for patterns exhibited in empirical data, there is no criterion on which to demarcate patterns that are physically significant and patterns that are not physically significant. I call a pattern physically significant if it corresponds to a structure...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 804 - 815 |
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