Ramseyfication and structural realism

• Autores: G. Zahar Elie
• Localización: Theoria: an international journal for theory, history and foundations of science, ISSN 0495-4548, Vol. 19, Nº 49, 2004, págs. 5-30
• Idioma: español
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  • Structural Realism (SSR), as embodied in the Ramsey-sentence H of a theory H, is defended against the view that H reduces to a trivial statement about the cardinally of the domain of H, a view which arises from ignoring the central role of observation within science. Putnam's theses are examined and shown to support rather than undermine SSR. Finally: in view of its synthetic character, applied mathematics must enter into the formulation of H and hence to be shown axiomatisable; this is done in the Appendix, which is the most important part of the paper.