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On Empirical Equivalence and Duality

De Haro, Sebastian (2020) On Empirical Equivalence and Duality. [Preprint]

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Abstract

I argue that, on a judicious reading of two existing criteria--one syntactic and the other semantic--dual theories can be taken to be empirically equivalent. The judicious reading is straightforward, but leads to the surprising conclusion that very different-looking theories can have equivalent empirical content. And thus it shows how a widespread scientific practice, of interpreting duals as empirically equivalent, can be understood by a thus-far unnoticed feature of existing accounts of empirical equivalence.


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De Haro, Sebastiansd696@cam.ac.uk0000-0002-3000-5967
Keywords: Duality, empirical equivalence, syntactic view of theories, semantic view of theories
Subjects: General Issues > Philosophers of Science
Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics
General Issues > Structure of Theories
Depositing User: Dr Sebastian De Haro
Date Deposited: 14 Apr 2020 02:39
Last Modified: 14 Apr 2020 02:39
Item ID: 17069
Subjects: General Issues > Philosophers of Science
Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics
General Issues > Structure of Theories
Date: 13 April 2020
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17069

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