Realism, underdetermination and string theory dualities.

String theory promises to be able to provide us with a working theory of quantum gravity and a unified description of all fundamental forces. In string theory there are so called 'dualities'; i.e. different theoretical formulations that are physically equivalent. In this article these dualities are...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 190; no. 3; pp. 471 - 490
Main Author:	Matsubara, Keizo
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Feb2013
Subjects:	Quantum gravity General relativity (Physics) String models (Physics) Duality (Logic) Semantics (Philosophy) Epistemics
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