Norton, Joshua (2014) Weak Discernibility and Relations Between Quanta. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Some authors (Muller and Saunders 2008, Huggett and Norton, 2013) have attempted to defend Leibniz's identity of indicernibes through weak discernibility. The idea is that if there is a symmetric, non-reflexive physical relation which holds between two particles, then those particles cannot be identical. In this paper I focus only on Muller and Saunders' account and argue that the means by which they achieve weak discernibility is not through a physical observable but an alternate mathematical construction which is both unorthodox and incomplete. Muller and Saunders build a map from numbers to a set of observables (mostly) and out of this map construct a weakly discerning formal relation. What Muller and Saunders' do not provide is a worked out account of how such maps pick out physical relations between particles.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Norton, Joshua Joshua.d.norton@gmail.com
Keywords:	Weak discernibility, Leibniz, principle of the identity of indiscernibles, quantum mechanics,
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Mr Joshua Norton
Date Deposited:	10 Nov 2014 16:25
Last Modified:	10 Nov 2014 16:25
Item ID:	11128
Official URL:	https://static.squarespace.com/static/5419cc80e4b0...
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	February 2014
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11128

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