Continuity of Theory Structure : A Conceptual Spaces Approach
Zenker, Frank LU
and Gärdenfors, Peter
LU
(2016)
In International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
30(4).
p.343-360
- Abstract
By understanding laws of nature as geometrical rather than linguistic entities, this paper addresses how to describe theory structures and how to evaluate their continuity. Relying on conceptual spaces as a modelling tool, we focus on the conceptual framework an empirical theory presupposes, thus obtain a geometrical representation of a theory’s structure. We stress the relevance of measurement procedures in separating conceptual from empirical structures. This lets our understanding of scientific laws come closer to scientific practice, and avoids a widely recognised deficit in current philosophy of science accounts, namely to risk a collapse of the physical into the mathematical.
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- author
- Zenker, Frank
LU
and Gärdenfors, Peter
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016-10-01
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
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- International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
- volume
- 30
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85032577251
- wos:000415792000003
- ISSN
- 0269-8595
- DOI
- 10.1080/02698595.2017.1331983
- language
- English
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