Macías-Bustos, Moisés and Martínez-Ordaz, María del Rosario (2023) Understanding Defective Theories: The case of Quantum Mechanics and non-individuality. [Preprint]
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Here, we deal with the question of under which circumstances can scientists achieve a legitimate understanding of defective theories qua defective. We claim that scientists understand a theory if they can recognize the theory’s underlying inference pattern(s) and if they can reconstruct and explain what is going on in specific cases of defective theories as well as consider what the theory would do if non-defective –even before finding ways of fixing it. Furthermore, we discuss the implications of this approach to understanding the meta-metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics, specifically with regard to Quasi-set theory.
We illustrate this by employing Quasi-set theory to structure a defective scientific theory and make possible the understanding of the theory.
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| Keywords: | Scientific Understanding, Structuralism, Ideology, Meta-metaphysics, Quasi-Set Theory, Non-Individuality in Quantum Mechanics. | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Structure of Theories |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2023 16:58 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 25 Mar 2023 16:58 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 21907 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Structure of Theories |
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| Date: | 2023 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21907 |
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