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Generalizing Empirical Adequacy II: Partial Structures

Lutz, Sebastian (2019) Generalizing Empirical Adequacy II: Partial Structures. Synthese. ISSN 0039-7857

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I show that extant attempts to capture and generalize empirical adequacy in terms of partial structures fail. Indeed, the motivations for the generalizations in the partial structures approach are better met by the generalizations via approximation sets developed in “Generalizing Empirical Adequacy I” (Lutz in Synthese 191:3195–3225, 2014b. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0440-3). Approximation sets also generalize partial structures.

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Lutz, Sebastiansebastian.lutz@gmx.net0000-0003-4274-4174
Keywords: Empirical adequacy; Constructive empiricism; Partial structures; Approximation sets; Approximation; Partial isomorphism; Partial homomorphism
Subjects: General Issues > Models and Idealization
General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism
General Issues > Structure of Theories
General Issues > Theory/Observation
Depositing User: Sebastian Lutz
Date Deposited: 16 Feb 2019 03:10
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2019 03:10
Item ID: 15743
Journal or Publication Title: Synthese
Publisher: Springer Nature
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02121-z
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1007/s11229-019-02121-z
Subjects: General Issues > Models and Idealization
General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism
General Issues > Structure of Theories
General Issues > Theory/Observation
Date: 19 February 2019
ISSN: 0039-7857
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15743

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