Dewar, Neil (2016) Sophistication about symmetries. [Preprint]
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Suppose that one thinks that certain symmetries of a theory reveal “surplus structure”. What would a formalism without that surplus structure look like? The conventional answer is that it would be a reduced theory: a theory which traffics only in structures invariant under the relevant symmetry. In this paper, I argue that there is a neglected alternative: one can work with a sophisticated version of the theory, in which the symmetries act as isomorphisms.
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Item Type: | Preprint | ||||||
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Keywords: | Symmetries; equivalence; invariance | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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Depositing User: | Neil Dewar | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2016 18:13 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2016 18:13 | ||||||
Item ID: | 12469 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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Date: | September 2016 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12469 |
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