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What is the value in an intrinsic formalism?

March, Eleanor (2025) What is the value in an intrinsic formalism? [Preprint]

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I discuss the distinction between extrinsic and intrinsic approaches to reformulating a theory with symmetries, and offer an account of the special value of intrinsic formalisms, drawing on a distinction between which mathematical expressions are meaningful within an extrinsic formalism and which are not.


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March, Eleanoreleanor.march@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Keywords: Symmetries, intrinsic, extrinsic, interpretationalism, motivationalism, reduction, sophistication
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Depositing User: Eleanor March
Date Deposited: 30 Jun 2025 13:27
Last Modified: 30 Jun 2025 13:27
Item ID: 25848
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Date: 26 June 2025
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25848

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