Intrinsic, extrinsic, and the constitutive a priori

DOI10.1007/S10701-019-00281-ZMaRDI QIDQ2072028zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors László E. Szabó

Publication date 31 January 2022

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08815

zbMATH Keywords

constitutive a prioriformalismholismintrinsic propertymeaningphysicalismReichenbachtruth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

Abstract: On the basis of what I call physico-formalist philosophy of mathematics, I will develop an amended account of the Kantian--Reichenbachian conception of constitutive a priori. It will be shown that the features (attributes, qualities, properties) attributed to a real object are not possessed by the object as a "thing-in-itself"; they require a physical theory by means of which these features are constituted. It will be seen that the existence of such a physical theory implies that a physical object can possess a property only if other contingently existing physical objects exist; therefore, the intrinsic--extrinsic distinction is flawed.

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