creators_name: Lutz, Sebastian
creators_id: sebastian.lutz@gmx.net
type: pittpreprint
datestamp: 2011-08-07 03:46:35
lastmod: 2011-08-07 03:46:35
metadata_visibility: show
title: Generalizing Empirical Adequacy II: Partial Structures
subjects: models-and-idealization
subjects: realism-anti-realism
subjects: structure-of-theories
subjects: theory-observation
full_text_status: public
keywords: empirical adequacy; partial structures; vagueness sets; approximation; partial isomorphism; constructive empiricism
note: Companion piece to " Empirical Adequacy I:  Multiplicity and Approximation" (http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/8743).
abstract: The companion piece to this article captures and generalizes empirical adequacy in terms of vagueness sets. In this article, I show that previous attempts to capture and generalize empirical adequacy in terms of partial structures fail. Indeed, the motivations for the partial structures approach are better met by vagueness sets, which can be used to generalize the partial structure approach.
date: 2011-07-26
related_url_url: http://phil.uu.nl/~slutz/
related_url_type: author
citation: Lutz, Sebastian (2011) Generalizing Empirical Adequacy II: Partial Structures. [Preprint]
document_url: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8744/1/general_empiral_adequacy_b.pdf