Constructor theory.
Constructor theory seeks to express all fundamental scientific theories in terms of a dichotomy between and physical transformations–those that can be caused to happen and those that cannot. This is a departure from the prevailing conception of fundamental physics which is to predict what from in...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 190; no. 18; pp. 4331 - 4360 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2013
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